2 Kings 2:11
Hebrew Bible
10 Elijah replied, “That’s a difficult request! If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.” 11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm. 12 While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, “My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!” Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two. 13 He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Enoch 39:3
Pseudepigrapha
1 And it shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children will descend from the high heaven, and their seed will become one with the children of men. 2 And in those days Enoch received books of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion. And mercy shall not be accorded to them, says the Lord of Spirits. 3 And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth, and set me down at the end of the heavens. 4 And there I saw another vision, the dwelling places of the holy, and the resting places of the righteous. 5 Here my eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels, and their resting places with the holy. And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of men, and righteousness flowed before them as water, and mercy like dew upon the earth: Thus it is among them forever and ever.
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The verse and its description of the wind as a whirlwind will be recalled in 52:1 and is possibly an allusion to the vehicle of Elijah's ascent in 2 Kings 2:11 ..."
Nickelsburg, George W. E.
A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 37-82
(p. 109) Fortress Press, 2012
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