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2 Kings 6:2

Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

3Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.

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Cross References

Acts 18:3and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

1 Corinthians 9:6Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

2 Thessalonians 3:8nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden 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 →

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