2 Kings 6:2
1 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
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.
3 Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.
4 So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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!”
- ASV
- Let us go, we pray thee, unto the 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.
- DARBY
- Let us go, we pray thee, to the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he said, Go.
- BLB
- Let us go, please, to the Jordan, and let take from there each man one beam, and let us make to us there a place where we may dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.”
- ÅB
- La oss få gå til Jordan og der hente hver sin bjelke og så bygge oss et hus der som vi kan holde til i! Han svarte: Ja, gjør det!
- OTB
- La oss gå til Jordan, og hver av oss vil ta en bjelke derfra, og la oss bygge et sted der for oss selv hvor vi kan bo." Så sa han, "Gå."
- B1930
- La oss få gå til Jordan og der hente hver sin bjelke og så bygge oss et hus der som vi kan holde til i! Han svarte: Ja, gjør det!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 9:6
Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
Read in context1 Timothy 6:6
Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:9
Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
Read in contextActs 18:3
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor 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.
Read in contextActs 20:34–35
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
Read in contextJohn 21:3
Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.
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