An Axhead Floats
1 The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
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Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.”
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Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied.
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And he went with them. They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees.
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As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!”
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The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float.
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“Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.
Elisha Traps Blinded Arameans
8 Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, “I will set up my camp in such and such a place.”
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The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there.”