12 All the while E·liʹsha was seeing it, and he was crying out: “My father, my father,+ the war chariot* of Israel and his horsemen!”+ And he did not see him anymore. Consequently he took hold of his own garments and ripped them into two pieces.+

13 His servants now approached and spoke to him and said: “My father,+ had it been a great thing that the prophet himself had spoken to you, would you not do it? How much more, then, since he said to you, ‘Bathe and be clean’?”

14 As regards E·liʹsha,+ he had taken sick with the sickness with which he was to die.+ So Je·hoʹash the king of Israel came down to him and began to weep over his face and say: “My father,+ my father, the war chariot* of Israel and his horsemen!”+