2 Raja-raja 6:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi berkatalah abdi Allah: "Ke mana jatuhnya?" Lalu orang itu menunjukkan tempat itu kepadanya. Kemudian Elisa memotong sepotong kayu, lalu dilemparkannya ke sana, maka timbullah mata kapak itu dibuatnya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi berkatalah abdi Allah: "Ke mana jatuhnya?" Lalu orang itu menunjukkan tempat itu kepadanya. Kemudian Elisa memotong sepotong kayu, lalu dilemparkannya ke sana, maka timbullah mata kapak itu dibuatnya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kata aziz Allah: Di mana jatuh itu? Maka ditunjuknyalah tempatnya kepadanya, lalu dikeratnya sepotong kayu, dicampakkannya ke sana, demikianlah ditimbulkannya pula besi itu.

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
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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 founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.

Genesis 6:10
Noah begat three sonnes, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.

Genesis 6:17
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.

Genesis 6:18
With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt: and thou shalt come into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, thy wife, and thy sonnes wyues with thee.

Exodus 32:14
And the Lorde refrayned hym selfe from the euill whiche he sayd he would do vnto his people.

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man that he should lye, neither the sonne of a ma that he should repent: should he say & not do? or should he speake, and not make it good?

Deuteronomy 5:29
Oh that there were such an heart in them that they woulde feare me, & kepe all my comaundementes alway, that it myght go well with them, and with their childen for euer?

Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wyse, and vnderstoode this, that they woulde consider their latter ende.

Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord shal iudge his people, and haue compassion on his seruautes, when he seeth that their power is gone, and that they be in a maner shut vp, or brought to naught and forsaken.

1 Samuel 15:11
It repenteth me that I haue made Saul king: For he is turned from me, & hath not perfourmed my commaundementes. And Samuel was euill apayed, & cryed vnto the Lord all night.

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,