2 Kings 6:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

As one of them was felling a log, the ax head dropped into the water. He shouted,“Oh no, my master! It was borrowed!”

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  • Rev 18:10 : 10 They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,“Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!”
  • Rev 18:16 : 16 saying,“Woe, woe, O great city– dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet clothing, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls–
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning,“Woe, Woe, O great city– in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth– because in a single hour she has been destroyed!”
  • Exod 22:14-15 : 14 “If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay. 15 If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.
  • 2 Kgs 3:10 : 10 The king of Israel said,“Oh no! Certainly the LORD has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”
  • 2 Kgs 4:7 : 7 She went and told the prophet. He said,“Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”
  • 2 Kgs 6:15 : 15 The prophet’s attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha,“Oh no, my master! What will we do?”
  • Ps 37:21 : 21 Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.
  • Eccl 10:10 : 10 If an iron axhead is blunt and a workman does not sharpen its edge, he must exert a great deal of effort; so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.
  • Isa 10:34 : 34 The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 6:6-7
    2 verses
    84%

    6The prophet asked,“Where did it drop in?” When he showed him the spot, Elisha cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

    7He said,“Lift it out.” So he reached out his hand and grabbed it.

  • 2 Kgs 6:2-4
    3 verses
    81%

    2Let’s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.” He said,“Go.”

    3One of them said,“Please come along with your servants.” He replied,“All right, I’ll come.”

    4So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.

  • Isa 10:15
    70%

    15Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

  • Deut 19:5
    69%

    5Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.

  • Ps 74:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.

    6And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.

  • Eccl 10:9-10
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    68%

    9One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

    10If an iron axhead is blunt and a workman does not sharpen its edge, he must exert a great deal of effort; so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.

  • 2 Kgs 4:3
    67%

    3He said,“Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.

  • Lam 5:13
    66%

    13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.

  • 1 Sam 13:20-21
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    66%

    20So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles sharpened.

    21They charged two-thirds of a shekel to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1
    66%

    1Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying,“Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

  • Isa 44:12
    65%

    12A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired.

  • Lam 5:4
    65%

    4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

  • Ezek 15:3-4
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    65%

    3Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

    4No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
    65%

    39When the king passed by, he called out to the king,“Your servant went out into the heat of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. He told me,‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, you will pay with your life or with a talent of silver.’

  • 2 Kgs 2:13-14
    2 verses
    65%

    13He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.

    14He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, hit the water with it, and said,“Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    65%

    6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.

  • 1 Kgs 13:5-6
    2 verses
    65%

    5Meanwhile the altar split open and the ashes poured from the altar in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had given with the LORD’s message.

    6The king responded to the prophet,“Seek the favor of the LORD your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the LORD’s favor and the king’s hand was restored as it was at first.

  • 2 Sam 14:6
    65%

    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

  • 2 Chr 2:16
    64%

    16we will get all the timber you need from Lebanon and bring it in raft-like bundles by sea to Joppa. You can then haul it on up to Jerusalem.”

  • Hab 2:11
    64%

    11For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.

  • 2 Kgs 4:6
    64%

    6When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons,“Bring me another container.” But he answered her,“There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.

  • Amos 6:11
    64%

    11Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

  • 2 Sam 6:6
    64%

    6When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.

  • Luke 5:6-7
    2 verses
    64%

    6When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.

    7So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink.

  • 1 Kgs 13:21
    64%

    21So he cried out to the prophet who had come from Judah,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You have rebelled against the LORD’s instruction and have not obeyed the command the LORD your God gave you.

  • Josh 9:23
    64%

    23Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    64%

    31Then he said,“May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!”

  • Ps 141:7
    64%

    7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • 2 Kgs 4:18-19
    2 verses
    64%

    18The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

    19He said to his father,“My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“Carry him to his mother.”

  • 2 Kgs 6:26-27
    2 verses
    64%

    26While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him,“Help us, my master, O king!”

    27He replied,“No, let the LORD help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty.”

  • Eccl 11:1
    64%

    1Ignorance of the Future Demands Diligence in the Present Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

  • 1 Kgs 6:7
    64%

    7As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

  • Luke 3:9
    64%

    9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

  • Hag 2:16
    64%

    16From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

  • 1 Kgs 5:6
    64%

    6So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

  • Jer 15:12
    64%

    12Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?