1 Kings 19:18-20

Living Bible

¹⁸ And incidentally, there are 7,000 men in Israel who have never bowed to Baal nor kissed him!”

¹⁹ So Elijah went and found Elisha who was plowing a field with eleven other teams ahead of him; he was at the end of the line with the last team. Elijah went over to him and threw his coat across his shoulders and walked away again.^[a]

²⁰ Elisha left the oxen standing there and ran after Elijah and said to him, “First let me go and say good-bye to my father and mother, and then I’ll go with you!”

Elijah replied, “Go on back! Why all the excitement?”