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The guild prophets said to Elisha, "As you can see, the place where we are living in order to be with you is too small for us.
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Please allow us to go to the Yarden; each of us will collect a log there, and we'll build a place there for us to live." He answered, "Go ahead."
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But one of them said, "Please, won't you come with your servants?" He answered, "All right, I will";
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so he went with them. When they arrived at the Yarden, they cut down trees;
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but as one was felling a tree trunk, the head of his axe fell in the water. "Oh, no!" he cried. "My master, it was a borrowed one!"
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The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. Then Elisha cut a stick, threw it in there, and the iron axe-head floated to the surface.
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"Lift it out," he said. So he put out his hand and took it.
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Now the king of Aram went to war against Isra'el; and in consulting his servants he said, "I'll set up my ambush camp in such-and-such a place."