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2 Kings 6:4

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Jordan;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kings, 1 and 2;   Rivers and Waterways in the Bible;   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®
So he went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
Hebrew Names Version
So he went with them. When they came to the Yarden, they cut down wood.
King James Version
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
English Standard Version
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
New Century Version
so he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they cut down some trees.
New English Translation
So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.
Amplified Bible
So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down [some of] the trees.
New American Standard Bible
So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So he went with them, & when they came to Iorden, they cut downe wood.
Legacy Standard Bible
So he went with them; and they came to the Jordan and cut down trees.
Contemporary English Version
and he left with them. They went to the Jordan River and began chopping down trees.
Complete Jewish Bible
so he went with them. When they arrived at the Yarden, they cut down trees;
Darby Translation
And he went with them. And they came to the Jordan and cut down the trees.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Elisha went with the group of prophets. When they arrived at the Jordan River, they began to cut down some trees.
George Lamsa Translation
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
Good News Translation
and they set out together. When they arrived at the Jordan, they began to work.
Lexham English Bible
He went with them, and they went to the Jordan, and they cut down the trees.
Literal Translation
And he went with them. And they came to the Jordan, and cut down trees.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he wete with them. And whan they came to Iordane, they hewed downe tymber.
American Standard Version
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
Bible in Basic English
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they got to work cutting down trees.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so he went with them: And when they came to Iordane, they cut downe wood.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
King James Version (1611)
So hee went with them: and when they came to Iordane, they cut downe wood.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he went with them, and they came to Jordan, and began to cut down wood.
English Revised Version
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
Berean Standard Bible
So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thei `hadden come to Jordan, thei hewiden trees.
Young's Literal Translation
And he goeth with them, and they come in to the Jordan, and cut down the trees,
Update Bible Version
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
Webster's Bible Translation
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
World English Bible
So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
New King James Version
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
New Living Translation
So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees.
New Life Bible
So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he went with them, - and, when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
Revised Standard Version
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
THE MESSAGE
He went with them. They came to the Jordan and started chopping down trees. As one of them was felling a timber, his axhead flew off and sank in the river. "Oh no, master!" he cried out. "And it was borrowed!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

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

they cut down wood: Deuteronomy 19:5, Deuteronomy 29:11

Cross-References

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 6:20
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.
Genesis 6:21
Also take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them."
Genesis 6:22
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
Numbers 13:33
There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim); and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
Numbers 16:2
two hundred fifty Israelite men, leaders of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men, and they confronted Moses.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)
1 Samuel 17:4
And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. Trees which grew upon the banks of it, to build their house with, at least for the rafters and flooring of it, supposing the walls to be built of stone.


 
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