2 Rois 6:5

5 Et comme l'un d'eux abattait une poutre, le fer tomba dans l'eau. Il s'écria: Ah! mon seigneur, il était emprunté!

2 Rois 6:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 6:5

But as one was felling a beam
Cutting down a tree, or a branch of it:

the axe head fell into the water:
into the waters of Jordan; or "the iron" ^F4, the iron part of it, with which the wood was cut; that flew off from the helve into the water:

and he cried, and said, alas, master! for it was borrowed:
it grieved him to lose his axe, because he could do no more work, and the more because it was not his own, but he had borrowed it of his neighbour; and still more, because, as it seems, he was poor, and not able to pay for it, which, being of an honest disposition, gave him distress.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (lzrbh) "ferrum", Pagninus, Montanus

2 Rois 6:5 In-Context

3 Et l'un d'eux dit: Consens à venir avec tes serviteurs. Il répondit: J'irai.

4 Il partit donc avec eux. Arrivés au Jourdain, ils coupèrent du bois.

5 Et comme l'un d'eux abattait une poutre, le fer tomba dans l'eau. Il s'écria: Ah! mon seigneur, il était emprunté!

6 L'homme de Dieu dit: Où est-il tombé? Et il lui montra la place. Alors Elisée coupa un morceau de bois, le jeta à la même place, et fit surnager le fer.

7 Puis il dit: Enlève-le! Et il avança la main, et le prit.