And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, (l) Ye shall not send.
(l) Because the fact was extraordinary, they doubted where he had gone, but Elisha was assured that he was taken up to God.