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Now the company of prophets said to Elisha, "As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us.
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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."
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Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." And he answered, "I will."
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So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
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But as one was felling a log, his ax head fell into the water; he cried out, "Alas, master! It was borrowed."
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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.
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He said, "Pick it up." So he reached out his hand and took it.
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Once when the king of Aram was at war with Israel, he took counsel with his officers. He said, "At such and such a place shall be my camp."
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But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Take care not to pass this place, because the Arameans are going down there."
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The king of Israel sent word to the place of which the man of God spoke. More than once or twice he warned such a place so that it was on the alert.