The group of prophets [59] said to Elisha, “We are staying in that place over there. But it is too small for us.
2 Kings 6:2 - Easy To Read Version Let’s go to the Jordan River {and cut some wood}. Each of us will get a log and we will build us a place to live there.” 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 group of prophets [59] said to Elisha, “We are staying in that place over there. But it is too small for us.
They were tentmakers, the same as Paul. So Paul stayed with them and worked with them.
And are Barnabas and I the only ones that must work to earn our living?
Brothers and sisters, I know that you remember how hard we worked. We worked night and day. We did not want to burden you \{by making you pay us\} while we did the work of telling God’s Good News to you.
And when we ate another person’s food, we always paid for it. We worked and worked so that we would not be trouble to any of you. We worked night and day.
It is true that serving God makes a person very rich, if that person is satisfied with what he has.