列王纪下 6:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

請你讓我們到約旦河，每人從那裡取一根木頭，我們要在那裡為自己建造一個地方居住。”以利沙說：“你們去吧！”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
求 你 容 我 们 往 约 但 河 去 ， 各 人 从 那 里 取 一 根 木 料 建 造 房 屋 居 住 。 他 说 ： 你 们 去 罢 ！

Contextual Overview

¹ The groups of prophets said to Elisha, "The place where we meet with you is too small for us. ² Let's go to the Jordan River. There everyone can get a log, and let's build a place there to live." Elisha said, "Go." ³ One of them said, "Please go with us." Elisha answered, "I will go," ⁴ so he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they cut down some trees. ⁵ As one man was cutting down a tree, the head of his ax fell into the water. He yelled, "Oh, my master! I borrowed that ax!" ⁶ Elisha asked, "Where did it fall?" The man showed him the place. Then Elisha cut down a stick and threw it into the water, and it made the iron head float. ⁷ Elisha said, "Pick up the axhead." Then the man reached out and took it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and take thence: John 21:3, Acts 18:3, Acts 20:34, Acts 20:35, 1 Corinthians 9:6, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 1 Timothy 6:6

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them.

Genesis 6:2
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.

Genesis 6:3
The Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.

Genesis 6:6
He was sorry he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry I have made them."

Genesis 6:8
But Noah pleased the Lord .

Genesis 6:12
When God saw that everyone on the earth did only evil,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan,.... Which, according to Josephus a, was fifty furlongs, or upwards of six miles, distant from Gilgal:

and take thence every man a beam; by cutting down the trees that grew there; for Mr. Maundrell says b, the banks of Jordan are beset with bushes and trees, which are an harbour for wild beasts; and another traveller c observes, that it is shadowed on both sides with poplars, alders, c. and who speaks of their cutting down boughs from the trees when there:

and let us make us a place there where we may dwell: near the banks of Jordan, which they might choose for the seclusion and pleasantness of the situation, or because Elijah was taken up to heaven near it, as Abarbinel thinks from whence it appears that these scholars were far from living an idle life; for they were not only trained up in useful learning, but were employed in trades and manufactures, to which they had been brought up, and knew how to fell timber, and build houses:

and he answered, go ye; he gave them leave, without which they did not choose to do anything.

a Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 4. b Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 82, 83. c Sandys's Travels, l. 3. p. 110.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take every man a beam - Trees were rare in most parts of Palestine, but plentiful in the Jordan Valley. Jericho was known in early times as “the city of palms” Deuteronomy 34:3; Judges 1:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 6:2. Every man a beam — They made a sort of log-houses with their own hands.