Elisha Bible stories for kids

Elisha and the Widow's Oil opens on a mother whose husband has died and whose two boys are about to be taken away to work off a debt. Elisha asks one question, what she has in the house, and the answer is a single small jar of olive oil. He sends the boys down the street to borrow every empty jar the neighbors can spare, and behind a shut door the oil keeps pouring until there is not a jar left to fill. It runs about four minutes. Elisha and the Room on the Roof is the gentlest of the set, five minutes about a woman in Shunem who keeps feeding a traveling prophet and then builds him a room on the roof with a bed, a table, a chair and a lamp. She turns down a good word with the king, and God gives her the son she had never asked for out loud.

Elisha Raises the Shunammite's Son is the same family's hardest day, and the only one written for ages 5 to 8. The boy cries out about his head in the harvest field and at noon, on his mother's lap, does not wake up. She lays him on Elisha's bed, rides to Mount Carmel saying only "It is well", and will not let go of Elisha's feet. It ends on seven sneezes and a boy opening his eyes, about six and a half minutes in all. Elisha Feeds a Hundred Men follows, four minutes in a famine: a helpful student cuts wild gourds into the pot, a handful of flour makes the stew safe, and twenty barley loaves leave bread on the table after a hundred men have eaten.

Elisha and the Floating Axe Head is three minutes at the Jordan, where a borrowed iron axe head flies off its handle and sinks, and Elisha throws in a plain stick and the iron floats. It is on our list for three-year-olds and the easiest place to start. Elisha and the Invisible Army closes the set at six minutes. An angry king rings the town of Dothan with soldiers overnight, Elisha's young helper looks over the wall and panics, and Elisha prays only that his eyes be opened. The hills are full of horses and chariots of fire. Nobody gets hurt, and the enemy army is given a feast and sent home.

On this website the widow's oil, the stew and the axe head are published in full. The room on the roof, the boy who woke up and the invisible army carry their opening, with the rest of the narration in the app. Every page has a free audio preview, the memory verse from the World English Bible, discussion questions and a prayer. One thing to know before you start: the scripts were written with the axe head first, so the oil and stew stories mention it as if your child has already heard it.