Elisha (Discussion Questions) - Kids Korner

Read II Kings 2-13

Widow and the pot of oil: (II Kings 4:1-7)

Does this story remind you of another healing? (Elijah and the widow)
What was going to happen to this woman?
What did Elisha ask her? [one of my favorite questions in the Bible: what hast thou in the house?]
What does that question mean?
Have you ever had to see what you've had in the house for survival?
What did the woman and her sons do?
What did you learn from this story?

The Shunammite: (II Kings 4: 8-37)

Elisha must have been an incredible man. Why? (a woman in Shunem invited him to eat bread; had her husband fix a room for him when he came to town - she saw he must be a man of God)
Do people know we belong to God when they meet us? Why or why not?
What would we need to do with our lives for others to see God through us?
Who was Gehazi? (Elisha's servant)
What did Elisha ask Gehazi? (what he could do for the woman) What was Gehazi's response? (the woman didn't have a son)
Did she believe Elisha when he told her she was going to have a baby?
Did she have a son? (yes)
What happened to her son?
What did the Shunammite woman do when she noticed her son was dead? (put him on Elisha's bed, got a donkey and a servant to ride with her to find Elisha)
Where would she go to find Elisha? (Mount Carmel)
Why did she go get Elisha?
What was so special about him?
Did she go to complain?
When Elisha sent Gehazi to inquire if everything was all right, how did she respond? (It is well. Other translations say, "Everything is fine.")
Why didn't she complain?
Elisha understood something was wrong and after the woman told him her child had died, what did he do? (sent Gehazi with Elisha's staff to put on the child)
Did this revive the boy? (No)
What did Elisha do? (II Kings 4:33-37)
Was this healing like any Elijah performed? (I Kings 17:21)

Poison in the Pot (II Kings 4:38-41)

Where did Elisha visit the sons of the prophets? (Gilgal)
What was wrong with the pottage (stew)? (one of the prophets had gathered a wild gourd)
What did Elisha do to remedy the problem? (sprinkled in meal)
Is that all he did? Do you think there was something else he did?
Is there anything we need to be careful of when we gather food in a field? (mushrooms, other?)
What does this require of us? Just to be careful of what we put in the pot? Is something more required?

Twenty Loaves of Bread (II Kings 4: 42-44)

What is one of the most common themes of the stories about Elijah and Elisha? (supply)
Discuss the Teen Time article on Infinite Supply.
What happens in this story?
Why did the man doubt that Elisha could feed 100 men with only twenty loaves of bread?
Does this story remind you of any other in the Bible? (Jesus feeding the multitudes - lots more people and a lot less bread initially - but everyone was full, with scraps left over)
Do you believe this is possible?
How can we daily demonstrate this in our lives?
What great lessons do you learn from Elijah and Elisha?