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Literal Standard Version

2 Kings 6:3

And the one says, "Please be willing, and go with your servants"; and he says, "I go."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Co-Operation;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Unity-Strife;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kings, 1 and 2;   Sons of the Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoram;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elisha ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophets;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elisha;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then one said, “Please come with your servants.”
Hebrew Names Version
One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
King James Version
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
English Standard Version
Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
New Century Version
One of them said, "Please go with us." Elisha answered, "I will go,"
New English Translation
One of them said, "Please come along with your servants." He replied, "All right, I'll come."
Amplified Bible
Then one said, "Please be willing to go with your servants." So he answered, "I shall go."
New American Standard Bible
Then one of them said, "Please agree and go with your servants." And he said, "I will go."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And one said, Vouchsafe, I pray thee, to go with thy seruants, and he answered, I will goe.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then one said, "Please be willing to go with your servants." And he answered, "I shall go."
Contemporary English Version
"Aren't you going with us?" one of the prophets asked. "Yes, I'll go," Elisha answered,
Complete Jewish Bible
But one of them said, "Please, won't you come with your servants?" He answered, "All right, I will";
Darby Translation
And one said, Consent, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he said, I will go.
Easy-to-Read Version
One of them said, "Please go with us." Elisha said, "Yes, I will go with you."
George Lamsa Translation
And one of them answered and said, If you please, go with your servants. And he answered, I will go.
Good News Translation
One of them urged him to go with them; he agreed,
Lexham English Bible
Then a certain one said, "Please be prepared and go with your servants," and he said, "I will go."
Literal Translation
And the one said, Please be willing, and go with your servants. And he said, I will surely go.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And one sayde: Go to then, & come wt thy seruauntes. He sayde: I wil go with you.
American Standard Version
And one said, Be pleased, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
Bible in Basic English
And one of them said, Be pleased to go with your servants. And he said, I will go.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And one saide: Be content I pray thee, and come with thy seruauntes. And he aunswered: I wyll come.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And one said: 'Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' And he answered: 'I will go.'
King James Version (1611)
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and goe with thy seruants. And he answered, I will goe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he said, Go. And one of them said gently, Come with thy servants. And he said, I will go.
English Revised Version
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
Berean Standard Bible
Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." "I will come," he replied.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which Elisee seide, Go ye. And oon of hem seide, Therfor `and thou come with thi seruauntis. He answeride, Y schal come. And he yede with hem.
Young's Literal Translation
And the one saith, `Be pleased, I pray thee, and go with thy servants;' and he saith, `I -- I go.'
Update Bible Version
And one said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your slaves. And he answered, I will go.
Webster's Bible Translation
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
World English Bible
One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
New King James Version
Then one said, "Please consent to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
New Living Translation
"Please come with us," someone suggested. "I will," he said.
New Life Bible
Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And Elisha answered, "I will go."
New Revised Standard
Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." And he answered, "I will."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said one - Be content, we pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he said - I myself, will go.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come.
Revised Standard Version
Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
THE MESSAGE
One of them then said, "Please! Come along with us!" He said, "Certainly."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then one said, "Please be willing to go with your servants." And he answered, "I shall go."

Contextual Overview

1And sons of the prophet say to Elisha, "Now behold, the place where we are dwelling before you is too narrow for us; 2please let us go to the Jordan, and we each take one beam from there, and we make a place there for ourselves to dwell there"; and he says, "Go." 3And the one says, "Please be willing, and go with your servants"; and he says, "I go."4And he goes with them, and they come to the Jordan, and cut down the trees, 5and it comes to pass, the one is felling the beam, and the iron [ax head] has fallen into the water, and he cries and says, "Aah! My lord, for it was borrowed!" 6And the man of God says, "To where has it fallen?" And he shows him the place, and he cuts a stick, and casts [it] there, and causes the iron to swim, 7and says, "Raise [it] up for yourself"; and he puts forth his hand and takes it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Be content: 2 Kings 5:23, Judges 19:6, Job 6:28

go with thy: Judges 4:8

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it comes to pass that mankind has begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, "An end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth has been full of violence from their presence; and behold, I am destroying them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make an ark of gopher-wood for yourself; you make rooms within the Ark, and you have covered it from inside and from outside with pitch;
Genesis 6:15
and this [is] how you do it: three hundred cubits [is] the length of the Ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;
Genesis 6:16
you make a window for the Ark, and you finish it to a cubit from above; and you put the opening of the Ark in its side; you make it [with] lower, second, and third [stories].
Genesis 6:18
And I have established My covenant with you, and you have come into the Ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and your son's wives with you;
Genesis 6:20
From the bird after its kind, and from the livestock after its kind, [and] from every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every [kind] they come to you, to keep alive.
Numbers 11:17
and I have come down and spoken with you there, and have kept back of the Spirit which [is] on you, and have put [that One] on them, and they have borne some of the burden of the people with you, and you do not bear [it] alone.
Nehemiah 9:30
And You draw over them many years, || And testify against them by Your Spirit, || By the hand of Your prophets, || And they have not given ear, || And You give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,
Psalms 78:39
And He remembers that they [are] flesh, || A wind going on—and it does not return.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And one said, be content, I pray thee, and with thy servants,.... Or be pleased to go with us; he begged it as a favour, that, being awed by his presence, they might preserve peace and order, and have his advice as to the spot of ground to erect their edifice on, and might be protected by him from harm and mischief by men or wild beasts:

and he answered, I will go; he consented to it, knowing perhaps before hand that he should have an opportunity of working a miracle there, as he did.


 
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