2 Kings 6:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

² 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Let us go to the Jordan, and each man get there a [house] beam; and let us make us a place there where we may dwell. And he answered, Go.

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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.

Common English Bible

² Let’s go to the Jordan River and each get a log from there. Then we can make a place to live there.” Elisha said, “Do it!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Let us go as far as the Jordan, and let us each take from the forest a piece of timber, so that we may build for ourselves a place to live there." And he said, "Go."

2 Kings 6:2 Cross References

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

Acts 18:3

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: (for by their occupation they were tentmakers.)

John 21:3

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.

2 Kings 6:1

And the sons of the prophets said unto Eli´sha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

2 Kings 6:3

And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.