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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
1 Kings 19:19–21, “So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.”
Elijah returned from the wilderness to Israel and found Elisha. Elisha must have been a man of some means because he was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, that is, twenty four oxen. Elijah put his prophets coat around Elisha and Elisha followed him. Elisha understood that the Lord, through Elijah, was calling him to be a prophet. He asked for permission to say to goodbye to his parents and then used two of the oxen to offer a sacrifice to the Lord before he followed Elijah and begin his training as a prophet.
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