◄ 2 Kings 6:4 ►
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Good News Translation
and they set out together. When they arrived at the Jordan, they began to work.

New Revised Standard Version
So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

Contemporary English Version
and he left with them. They went to the Jordan River and began chopping down trees.

New American Bible
So he went with them, and when they arrived at the Jordan they began to cut down trees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

they cut down wood

Deuteronomy 19:5 But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in cutting down the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping from the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities aforesaid, and live:

Deuteronomy 29:11 Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:

Context
The Axhead Floats
…3And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come. 4So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they cut down wood.5And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the ax fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.…
Cross References
2 Kings 6:3
And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come.

2 Kings 6:5
And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the ax fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.

2 Kings 6:3
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