20 At once Saul sent messengers to take David. When they got to see the elderly ones* of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing in his position over them, the spirit+ of God came to be upon Saul’s messengers, and they began behaving like prophets,+ they also.

3 Then the sons of the prophets+ that were at Bethʹel came out to E·liʹsha and said to him: “Do you really know that today Jehovah is taking your master* from headship over you?”+ At this he said: “I, too, well know it.+ BE silent.”

38 And E·liʹsha himself returned to Gilʹgal,*+ and there was famine+ in the land. As the sons+ of the prophets were sitting before him,+ he in time said to his attendant:+ “Put the large cooking pot on and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”+

6 And the sons+ of the prophets began to say to E·liʹsha: “Look, now! The place+ where we are dwelling before you is too cramped+ for us.