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the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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2 Kings 6:3

Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." And he answered, "I will."

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."
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

1 Now the company of prophets said to Elisha, "As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us. 2 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." 3 Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." And he answered, "I will." 4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 5 But as one was felling a log, his ax head fell into the water; he cried out, "Alas, master! It was borrowed." 6 Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick, and threw it in there, and made the iron float. 7 He said, "Pick it up." So he reached out his hand and took 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
When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
Genesis 6:15
This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:16
Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and put the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks.
Genesis 6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind shall come in to you, to keep them alive.
Numbers 11:17
I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people along with you so that you will not bear it all by yourself.
Nehemiah 9:30
Many years you were patient with them, and warned them by your spirit through your prophets; yet they would not listen. Therefore you handed them over to the peoples of the lands.
Psalms 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.

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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