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2 Raja-raja 6:2

Baiklah kami pergi ke sungai Yordan dan masing-masing mengambil satu balok dari sana, supaya kami membuat tempat tinggal untuk kami." Jawab Elisa: "Pergilah!"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Co-Operation;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Unity-Strife;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jordan, the River;   Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Education in Bible Times;   Miracle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beam;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Jericho;   Jordan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kings, 1 and 2;   Sons of the Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beam;   Jehoram;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elisha ;   Prophets, Sons of the;   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 - Beam;   Elisha;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Baiklah kami pergi ke sungai Yordan dan masing-masing mengambil satu balok dari sana, supaya kami membuat tempat tinggal untuk kami." Jawab Elisa: "Pergilah!"
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Biarkanlah kiranya kami pergi ke Yarden, masing-masing meramu kayu bakal rumah di sana, supaya di sanalah kami membuat suatu tempat kedudukan kami. Maka kata Elisa: Pergilah.

Contextual Overview

1 The children of the prophetes saide vnto Elisa: Beholde we pray thee, the place where we dwell with thee is to litle for vs: 2 Let vs go we pray thee vnto Iordane, & take thence euery man a beame, & build vs a place to dwel in. And he aunswered, Go. 3 And one saide: Be content I pray thee, and come with thy seruauntes. And he aunswered: I wyll come. 4 And so he went with them: And when they came to Iordane, they cut downe wood. 5 But it fortuned, that as one was felling downe of a tree, the axe head fell into the water: And he cryed, and saide, Alas maister, it was lent me. 6 And the man of God saide: Where fell it? And he shewed him the place: And he cut downe a sticke, and cast it in thyther, and immediatly the iron did swymme. 7 Therfore sayde he: Take it vp. And he stretched out his hand, and toke it vp.

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
And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate.
Genesis 4:26
And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.
Genesis 6:1
And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:
Genesis 6:2
And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.
Genesis 6:3
And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.
Genesis 6:4
But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.
Genesis 6:6
And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.
Genesis 6:7
And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.
Genesis 6:8
But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.
Genesis 6:12
And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.

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.


 
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