列王纪下 6:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

神人說：“掉在哪裡呢？”於是他把那地點指給他看。他砍了一根木頭，丟在那裡，那斧頭就浮上來了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
　 神 人 问 说 ： 掉 在 哪 里 了 ？ 他 将 那 地 方 指 给 以 利 沙 看 。 以 利 沙 砍 了 一 根 木 头 ， 抛 在 水 里 ， 斧 头 就 漂 上 来 了 。

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

he cut down: This could have no natural tendency to raise the iron and cause it to swim: it was only a sign, or ceremony, which the prophet chose to employ on the occasion. 2 Kings 2:21, 2 Kings 4:41, Exodus 15:25, Mark 7:33, Mark 7:34, Mark 8:23-25, John 9:6, John 9:7

the iron: This was the real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must otherwise still have kept it at the bottom of the river.

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 9:6 - city 2 Kings 8:4 - all the great

Cross-References

Genesis 6:8
But Noah pleased the Lord .

Genesis 6:10
He had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 6:18
But I will make an agreement with you—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives will all go into the boat.

Exodus 32:14
So the Lord changed his mind and did not destroy the people as he had said he might.

Numbers 23:19
God is not a human being, and he will not lie. He is not a human, and he does not change his mind. What he says he will do, he does. What he promises, he makes come true.

Deuteronomy 5:29
I wish their hearts would always respect me and that they would always obey my commands so that things would go well for them and their children forever!

Deuteronomy 32:29
I wish they were wise and understood this; I wish they could see what will happen to them.

Deuteronomy 32:36
The Lord will defend his people and have mercy on his servants. He will see that their strength is gone, that nobody is left, slaves or free.

1 Samuel 15:11
"I am sorry I made Saul king, because he has stopped following me and has not obeyed my commands." Samuel was upset, and he cried out to the Lord all night long.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the man of God said, where fell it?.... For though endowed with a spirit of prophecy, he did not know all things, and at all times; and if he did know where it fell, he might ask this question to lead on to the performance of the miracle:

and he showed him the place; the exact place in the river into which it fell:

and he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; he did not take the old helve and throw in, but a new stick he cut off of a tree; some think he made of this another helve or handle, of the same size and measure with the other, and that this being cast in was miraculously directed and fixed in the hole of the iron at the bottom of the water, and brought it up with it; but, as Abarbinel observes, there is no need to suppose this; the wood was cast into the precise place where the iron fell, and was sent as it were to call it up to it:

and the iron did swim; it came up and appeared, and was bore on the surface of the waters; or, "and made the iron to swim" e; which some understand of the wood cast in, as if it had some peculiar virtue in it to draw up the iron; but it was not any particular chosen wood, but what first occurred to the prophet f; and the meaning is, that Elisha caused it to float, contrary to the nature of iron.

e יצף "fecit supernatare", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. f Vid. Friese, Dissert. de Ferro Natante, sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No doubt there is something startling in the trivial character of this miracle, and of the few others which resemble it. But, inasmuch as we know very little as to the laws which govern the exercise of miraculous powers, it is possible that they may be so much under their possessor’s control that he can exercise them, or not exercise them, at pleasure. And it may depend on his discretion whether they are exercised in important cases only, or in trivial cases also. Elisha had evidently great kindness of heart. He could not see a grief without wishing to remedy it. And it seems as if he had sometimes used his miraculous power in pure good nature, when no natural way of remedying an evil presented itself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 6:6. He cut down a stick — This had no natural tendency to raise the iron; it was only a sign or ceremony which the prophet chose to use on the occasion.

The iron did swim. — This was a real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must have for ever kept it at the bottom of the water,