2 Kings 6:2
please let us go to the Jordan, and we each take one beam from there, and we make a place there for ourselves to dwell there”; and he says, “Go.”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
3And the one says, “Please be willing, and go with your servants”; and he says, “I go.”
Cross References
Acts 18:3and because of being of the same craft, he remained with them, and was working, for they were tentmakers as to craft;
1 Corinthians 9:6Or do only Barnabas and I have no authority not to work?
2 Thessalonians 3:8nor did we eat bread of anyone for nothing, but in labor and in travail, working night and day, not to be chargeable to any of you;
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 →