And Elisha saw

 

divine

 

(di-vin)adj. di-vin-er, di-vin-est. 1.   Having the nature of or being a deity. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity: sought divine guidance through meditation. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred. 2. Superhuman; godlike. 3.   Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent: a divine performance of the concerto. Extremely pleasant; delightful: had a divine time at the ball. 4. Heavenly; perfect.n. 1. A cleric. 2. A theologian.v. di-vined, di-vin-ing, di-vines.v. tr. 1. To foretell through or as if through the art of divination. See Synonyms at foretell. 2.   To know by inspiration, intuition, or reflection. To guess. 3. To locate (underground water or minerals) with a divining rod; douse.v. intr. 1. To practice divination. 2. To guess.[Middle English, from Old French devine, from Latin divinus, divine, foreseeing, from divus, god. See deiw-., V., Middle English divinen, from Old French deviner, from Latin divinare, from divinus, foreseeing.]--di-vine'ly adv. --di-vine'ness n. --di-vin'er n

 

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mantle

(mantl)n. 1. A loose, sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak. 2. Something that covers, envelops, or conceals: "On a summer night ... a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads" (John Dollard). 3.   Variant of mantel. 4. The outer covering of a wall. 5. A zone of hot gases around a flame. 6. A device in gas lamps consisting of a sheath of threads that gives off brilliant illumination when heated by the flame. 7. Anatomy. The cerebral cortex. 8. Geology. The layer of the earth between the crust and the core. 9. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth. 10. The wings, shoulder feathers, and back of a bird when differently colored from the rest of the body. 11.   Zoology. A fold or pair of folds of the body wall that lines the shell and secretes the substance that forms the shell in mollusks and brachiopods. The soft outer wall lining the shell of a tunicate or barnacle.v. man-tled, man-tling, man-tles.v. tr. To cover with or as if with a mantle; conceal. See Synonyms at clothe.v. intr. 1. To spread or become extended over a surface. 2. To become covered with a coating, as scum or froth on the surface of a liquid. 3. To be overspread by blushes or colors: a face that was mantled in joy.

  

                                                                                     Excerpted from American Heritage

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God

created

 

*

And the rib,

which

the

Lord God

had taken

 

from

man,

 

*

 

the heaven

 

*

made he

a woman,

 

**

 

and the earth.

 

**

and brought her

unto the man.

**

that they

may breed abundantly

in the earth,

 

and be fruitful,

and multiply upon the earth.

*

 

And the

Lord God

 

called unto Adam,

 

and said unto

him,

Where art thou?

*

and

where the light is as darkness.

 

*

 

And he said,

I

heard

thy voice in the garden,

*

And thou shalt be brought down,

 

and shalt speak

out of the ground,

and thy speech

shall be low out of the dust,

 

and thy voice shall be,

as of

one

that hath

a familiar spirit,

 

out of the ground,

 

and thy speech shall

whisper

out of the dust.

 

*

 

 

and I

was afraid,

*

For the thing which

I greatly feared

is come upon me,

and that

which

 

I

was afraid

 

of

is

come unto me.

*

 

because

I

was naked;

 

and

I

hid myself.

 

*

and from

thy face

shall

I be hid;

 

*

And Adam

knew

his wife

 again;

 and she bare a son,

and called

his name

 

Seth:

**

 

Thou

calledst in

trouble,

 

and

I

delivered thee;

 

I

answered thee

 

in

the

 

secret place

 

of

thunder:

*

 

 

**

and God

divided

 

the

light

 

 

from

the darkness.

 

**

from

the earth,

 

and watered

 

the

whole face

of

the ground.

 

**

but

how little

a portion

is

heard of him?

 

but

the

thunder

 

of

his power

*

And he said,

 

Who

told thee

that thou

wast naked?

*

who

can understand?

*

upon all

that moveth

upon the earth,

and upon all the fishes

of the sea;

into

your hand

are

they delivered.

 

*

 

As God liveth,

 

who

hath taken away

my judgment;

 

and the Almighty,

who

 

hath vexed

my

soul;

 

All the while

my breath

is in

 

me,

 

and

the

spirit

 

of

God

 

is in

my nostrils;

*

 

I

proved thee

at

the waters

of

Meribah.

Selah.

 

Hear,

O my

people,

 

and

I

will testify unto thee:

 

O Israel,

 

if thou

wilt hearken

unto me;

 

There

shall

no strange god

be

in thee;

 

neither shalt

thou worship

any strange god.

 

I am SamuelO

 

the

Lord thy God,

which brought

thee

out of

the

land of Egypt:

 

open thy mouth wide,

 

and

I

will fill it.

**

And thou

didst divide

the sea

 

before them,

 

so

that they

went through

the midst

of

the sea

on

the

dry land;

and their persecutors

thou

 threwest

 

into the

deeps,

 

as a stone

into

the

mighty waters.

**

 

That saith

to the

deep,

 

Be dry,

 

and I

will dry up

thy rivers:

 

*

 

 

*

And Zillah,

 

she also

bare

Tubalcain,

an instructor

of

every artificer

in brass

 

and iron:

 

and the

sister

of

Tubalcain was Naamah.

*

And to Seth,

to

him also

there was born a son;

 

and he

called

his name Enos:

 

 then

began men

to

call

upon the name

of

the Lord.

*

And that

was counted

unto him

for righteousness

unto

all generations

for

evermore.

*

God moved upon

the face

 

*

And Noah went forth,

*

 

and his sons,

and his wife,

and his sons'

wives with him:

 

*

And the earth

was

without form,

*

Thus saith

the

Lord

ISAMUELO,

 

thy redeemer,

 

and he

that formed

thee

from the womb,

 

I am

the Lord

that maketh all things;

that stretcheth forth

 

the heavens alone;

 

that spreadeth abroad

the earth

 

by myself;

 

That frustrateth

the

tokens

of

the liars,

and maketh diviners mad;

 

that turneth wise men backward,

 

and maketh their knowledge foolish;

*

and Mehujael begat Methusael:

and Methusael begat

 

Lamech.

*

That confirmeth the word

**

The Lord

 redeemeth

the

soul

of

his servants:

and none

of

them

that trust

in

IMMANUEL

 shall be desolate.

 

*

Let them shout for joy,

and be glad,

that favour

my righteous cause:

yea,

let them say continually,

 

Let the Lord be magnified,

which hath pleasure

in

the prosperity

of

his servant.

 

And my tongue

shall speak

of

thy righteousness

and

of

thy praise

all the day long.

*

And Adam

knew

his wife

 again;

 and she bare a son,

and called

his

name

Seth:

*

The seed also

of

his servants

shall inherit it:

 

and they

that love

 

his name

 

shall dwell therein.

*

of

his servant,

and performeth

the counsel

*

and fowl

that may fly above the earth in the open

firmament of heaven.

*

of

his messengers;

that saith to Jerusalem,

 

Thou shalt be inhabited;

 

and to the cities of Judah,

 

Ye shall be built,

 and

I

IMMANUEL

will raise up

the decayed places thereof:

*

Thy mercy,

O

Lord,

is in

the

heavens;

 

and thy faithfulness reacheth

unto the clouds.

 

Thy righteousness

is

like the great mountains;

thy judgments

are a

great deep:

 

O Lord,

thou preservest man

and beast.

*

and darkness

was upon

 

the face

 

of

 

the deep.

 

And the Spirit

of

God

moved upon the face

of

the waters.

*

And God said,

Behold,

I

have given

you

every herb

bearing seed,

which

is

upon

the

face

 

of

all

the earth,

*

 

And a river

went out

of

Eden

to

water the garden;

**

And it

came to pass,

as they

still went on,

 

and talked,

 

that,

 

behold,

there appeared

a

chariot of fire,

and

horses of fire,

 

and parted them both asunder;

 

and Elijah

went up

by a

whirlwind into heaven.

 

And Elisha saw

it,

and he cried,

My father,

my father,

the chariot

of

Israel,

and the horsemen thereof.

 

And

he

saw him no more:

*

And Adam lived an hundred

and thirty years,

and begat

a son

in

his own

*

And God

made

two

great

lights;

the greater light

to rule the day,

 

and the lesser light

to rule the night: 

*

and he took hold

of

his own

clothes,

 

and rent them

in

two pieces.

 

He took up

also

the mantle

of

 Elijah that fell from him,

 

and went back,

and stood by the bank

of Jordan;

 

     And he

took the mantle

of

Elijah that fell from him,

 

and smote the waters,

 

and said,

Where is the Lord God

of

Elijah?

 

and when

he also

smitten the waters,

 

they parted hither

 

and thither:

**

 

**

Now after the death

of

Moses

the

servant

of

the Lord

 

it came to pass,

 

that the Lord

spake unto Joshua

the son of Nun,

 

Moses' minister,

saying,

 

Moses my servant is dead;

now therefore

arise,

go over this Jordan,

 

thou,

and all

this people,

unto the land which

 

I do

give to them,

even to the children of Israel.

 

Every place

That

the sole

of

your foot shall

tread upon,

that have

I

given unto you,

 

as I

said

unto Moses.

 

From the wilderness

and this Lebanon even unto the

great river,

 

the

river Euphrates,

all the

land

of

the

Hittites,

 

and unto the great sea

 

toward

the

going down

of the

sun,

 

shall be your coast.

**

And he said unto the woman,

Yea,

hath God said,

 

Ye shall not eat

of

every tree of the garden?

 

 

**

and Elisha went over.

 

 

There

was in the days of Herod,

the king of Judaea,

a certain priest named 

Zacharias,

a 

Son of Moses

ISamuelO