Elisha also raises someone from the dead (II Kings 4:18–37). He restores a child in stages, initially from a distance by having his servant rush ahead with Elisha’s staff and laying this staff on the face of the boy. When Elisha arrives, he restores the child to life and presents him to his mother. So Elisha was able, like Moses and Joshua, to control nature and, like Elijah, to raise a person from the dead.
