2 Kings 6:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Let us go as far as the Jordan and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.

2 Kings 6:2 Cross References

2 Kings 6:1

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.

2 Kings 6:3

Then one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.”

John 21:3

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

Acts 18:3

and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

we did not eat any one's bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

1 Timothy 6:6

There is great gain in godliness with contentment;