2 Kings 6:2
Good News Translation
Give us permission to go to the Jordan and cut down some trees, so that we can build a place to live." "All right," Elisha answered.

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
Why don't we build a new meeting place near the Jordan River? Each of us could get some wood, then we could build it." "That's a good idea," Elisha replied, "get started."

New American Bible
Let us go to the Jordan, where by getting one beam apiece we can build ourselves a place to live.” Elisha said, “Go.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.

and take thence

John 21:3 Simon Peter saith to them: I go a fishing. They say to him: We also come with thee. And they went forth and entered into the ship: and that night they caught nothing.

Acts 18:3 And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)

Acts 20:34,35 You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Context
The Axhead Floats
1And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. 2Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.3And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come.…
Cross References
2 Kings 6:1
And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

2 Kings 6:3
And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come.

2 Kings 6:1
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