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2 Kings 6:2

2 Kings 6:2 is verse 2 of 2 Kings chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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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!”

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2 Kings 6:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

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

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.

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

4 So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.

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Hebrew words

נֵֽלְכָהlet us go נָּ֣אplease עַדto הַיַּרְדֵּ֗ןthe Jordan וְנִקְחָ֤הand let us take מִשָּׁם֙from there אִ֚ישׁeach קוֹרָ֣הa beam אֶחָ֔תone וְנַעֲשֶׂהand let us make לָּ֥נוּfor ourselves שָׁ֛םthere מָק֖וֹםa place לָשֶׁ֣בֶתto dwell שָׁ֑םthere וַיֹּ֖אמֶרand he said לֵֽכוּgo

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

John 21:3
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
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.

Acts 20:35
In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

1 Corinthians 9:6
Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

1 Thessalonians 2:9
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
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
Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

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