2 Kings 6:3

3 Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied.

2 Kings 6:3 in Other Translations

3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

3 Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."

3 “Please come with us,” someone suggested. “I will,” he said.

3 One of them then said, "Please! Come along with us!" He said, "Certainly."

3 And one said, Be pleased, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

3 Then one of the disciples asked, "Won't you please come with us?" Elisha answered, "I'll go."

3 Then one said, "Please come with your servants." "I'll come," he answered.

3 Then one of them said, "Won't you please come with us?" "I will," Elisha replied.

2 Kings 6:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 6:3

And one said, be content, I pray thee, and with thy servants,
&c.] Or be pleased to go with us; he begged it as a favour, that, being awed by his presence, they might preserve peace and order, and have his advice as to the spot of ground to erect their edifice on, and might be protected by him from harm and mischief by men or wild beasts:

and he answered, I will go;
he consented to it, knowing perhaps before hand that he should have an opportunity of working a miracle there, as he did.

2 Kings 6:3 In-Context

1 The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

2 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.”

3 Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied.

4 And he went with them. They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees.

5 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!”