2 Kings 6:1-7
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The Miracle of the Axehead
6 Now the company of prophets[a] said to Elisha, ‘As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us. 2 Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, and build a place there for us to live.’ He answered, ‘Do so.’ 3 Then one of them said, ‘Please come with your servants.’ And he answered, ‘I will.’ 4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 5 But as one was felling a log, his axehead fell into the water; he cried out, ‘Alas, master! It was borrowed.’ 6 Then the man of God said, ‘Where did it fall?’ When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick, and threw it in there, and made the iron float. 7 He said, ‘Pick it up.’ So he reached out his hand and took it.
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- 2 Kings 6:1 Heb sons of the prophets
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