The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, ‘Please notice that the place where we live under your supervision is too small for us.
2 Kings 6:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Please let us go to the Jordan where we can each get a log and can build ourselves a place to live there.’ ‘Go,’ he said. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, ‘Please notice that the place where we live under your supervision is too small for us.
Then one said, ‘Please come with your servants.’ ‘I’ll come,’ he answered.
‘I’m going fishing,’ Simon Peter said to them. ‘We’re coming with you,’ they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
and since they were of the same occupation, tentmakers by trade, he stayed with them and worked.
For you remember our labour and hardship, brothers and sisters. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.
we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we laboured and toiled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.