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The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place where we dwell before you is too strait for us.
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Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He answered, Go you.
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One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
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So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
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But as one was felling a beam, the ax-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
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The man of God said, Where fell it? He shown him the place. He cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to swim.
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He said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.
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Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
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The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down.
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The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.