2 Kings 6:2 “Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we c…”

2 Kings 6:2

Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

World English Bible

Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” He answered, “Go!”

American Standard Version

Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

Geneva Bible 1599

Let vs nowe goe to Iorden, that we may take thence euery man a beame, and make vs a place to dwell in. And he answered, Goe.

Darby Translation

Let us go, we pray thee, to the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he said, Go.

Young's Literal Translation

let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and we take thence each one beam, and we make for ourselves there a place to dwell there;' and he saith, 'Go.'

Bible in Basic English

So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then.

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Cross references

“and take thence”

John 21:3 Acts 18:3 1 Corinthians 9:6 1 Thessalonians 2:9 2 Thessalonians 3:8 1 Timothy 6:6

John 21:3 · BSB

Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.

Acts 18:3 · BSB

and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

1 Corinthians 9:6 · BSB

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

1 Thessalonians 2:9 · BSB

Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 · BSB

nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

1 Timothy 6:6 · BSB

Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

3Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.

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