So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But as one was felling a beam, [a]the axe head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.” Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And when he showed him the place, (A)he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:5 Lit as for the iron, it fell

And he went with them.

They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!”

The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw(A) it there, and made the iron float.

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