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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Regum IV
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Elias and Ochozias (4 Kings 1) / Ochozias twice summons Elias who sends fire from heaven to kill the messengers (4 Kings 1:9-12)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Elias and Ochozias (4 Kings 1) / Elias follows a third summons (4 Kings 1:13-15)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Elias and Ochozias (4 Kings 1) / Elias tells the Ochozias that he will die because he had turned to Beelzebub (4 Kings 1:16)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Assumption of Elias and first miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 2) / Assumption of Elias (4 Kings 2:11) / With Eliseus dropping his mantle or Eliseus taking or holding it (4 Kings 2:12-13)

Further details

1. Elias sends fire from heaven on the King's messengers; 2. Elias comes with the third group of messengers; 3. Elias tells the Ochozias that he will die; 4. Elias is taken to heaven, Eliseus takes his mantle

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1233 (circa)

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 174r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 174

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