2 Kings 6:1-7

1 Now the company of prophets said to Elisha, "As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us.

2 Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, and build a place there for us to live." He answered, "Do so."

3 Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." And he answered, "I will."

4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

5 But as one was felling a log, his ax head fell into the water; he cried out, "Alas, master! It was borrowed."

6 Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick, and threw it in there, and made the iron float.

7 He said, "Pick it up." So he reached out his hand and took it.

2 Kings 6:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 6

In this chapter are recorded other wonders of Elisha, as causing iron to swim, 2Ki 6:1-7 having knowledge of the secret counsels of the king of Syria, which he disclosed to the king of Israel, 2Ki 6:8-12 smiting the Syrian army with blindness sent to take him, and which he led into the midst of Samaria, 2Ki 6:13-23, and the chapter is closed with an account of the siege of Samaria, and a sore famine in it, 2Ki 6:24-33.

Footnotes

• [a] Heb [sons of the prophets]