2 Kings 6:4

So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

In Context

3And one said: 'Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' And he answered: 'I will go.'

5But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said: 'Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.'

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:5as when a man goeth into the forest with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of these cities and live;

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 6:2-8

Iron Made to Swim. ( b. c. 893.) 1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. 2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. 3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go. 4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. 5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head… Read the whole commentary →

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