Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.”
He answered, “Go!”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Kings 6:2 in context
2 Kings 6:1–5
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The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.
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Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.”
He answered, “Go!”
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One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.”
He answered, “I will go.”
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So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
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But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”
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