2 Kings 6:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² “Please, let us go to the Yardĕn, and let every man take a log from there, and let us make there a place to dwell.” 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

And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us.

2 Kings 6:3

Then the one said, “Please undertake to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I shall go.”

John 21:3

Shim‛on Kĕpha said to them, “I am going to fish.” They said to him, “We are also coming with you.” They went out and immediately entered into the boat. And that night they caught none at all.

Acts 18:3

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

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or do only Barnaḇa and I have no right to refrain from working?

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, for labouring night and day, in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the Good News of Elohim.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but worked with labour and toil night and day, in order not to burden any of you,

1 Timothy 6:6

But reverence with contentment is great gain.