2 Kings 6:2
Please let us go to the Jordan, and let every man cut down a tree there, and let us build us a place there where we may live.” Elisha answered, “You may go ahead.”
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1The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “The place where we live with you is too small for us all.
3One of them said, “Please go with your servants.” Elisha answered, “I will go.”
Cross References
Acts 18:3and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
1 Corinthians 9:6Or is it only Barnabas and I who must work?
2 Thessalonians 3:8We did not eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, we worked night and day in difficult labor and hardship, so we might 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 →