2 Kings 13:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ And he said: Take the arrows. And when he had taken them, he said to him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three times and stood still.

¹⁹ And the man of God was angry with him, and said: If thou hadst smitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to utter destruction: but now three times shalt thou smite it.

²⁰ And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab came into the land the same year.