2 Kings 6:2

World English Bible (2000)

Please let us go to the Jordan, and every man take a beam from there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell." He answered, "Go!"

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Referenced Verses

  • John 21:3 : 3 Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
  • Acts 20:34-35 : 34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
  • 1 Tim 6:6 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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  • 2 Kgs 6:1
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    1The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell before you is too small for us.

  • 2 Kgs 6:3-5
    3 verses
    83%

    3One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."

    4So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

    5But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."

  • 2 Kgs 2:1-9
    9 verses
    75%

    1It happened, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

    2Elijah said to Elisha, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel." Elisha said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

    3The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?" He said, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."

    4Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho.

    5The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?" He answered, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace."

    6Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." They both went on.

    7Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan.

    8Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they two went over on dry ground.

    9It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me."

  • 2 Kgs 4:10
    72%

    10Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."

  • 2 Kgs 4:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil."

    3Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.

  • 2 Kgs 2:13-16
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    71%

    13He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

    14He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" When he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha went over.

    15When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

    16They said to him, "See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, "You shall not send them."

  • 2 Chr 2:16
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    16and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem."

  • 2 Kgs 6:13
    70%

    13He said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." It was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."

  • 2 Kgs 6:19
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    19Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." He led them to Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
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    1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

  • Hag 1:8
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    8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 3:8
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    8He said, "Which way shall we go up?" He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom."

  • 2 Kgs 2:18-19
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    18They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'"

    19The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries."

  • Judg 19:13
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    13He said to his servant, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah."

  • Gen 33:12
    69%

    12Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

  • Isa 2:5
    68%

    5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 3:11-13
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    68%

    11But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?" One of the king of Israel's servants answered, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah."

    12Jehoshaphat said, "The word of Yahweh is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

    13Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother." The king of Israel said to him, "No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."

  • 2 Kgs 13:15
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    15Elisha said to him, "Take bow and arrows;" and he took to him bow and arrows.

  • Deut 3:25
    68%

    25Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon."

  • 1 Kgs 17:2
    68%

    2The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 9:1
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    1Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, "Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

  • 1 Kgs 13:15
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    15Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread."

  • Zech 8:21
    68%

    21and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.'

  • 2 Kgs 5:26
    68%

    26He said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

  • 1 Kgs 22:6
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    6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king."

  • 2 Chr 2:9
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    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 1 Kgs 17:5
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    5So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

  • 2 Kgs 6:8
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    8Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place."

  • Judg 18:5
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    5They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
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    21The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"

  • Deut 1:7
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    7turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all [the places] near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

  • Gen 35:3
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    3Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

  • Num 10:31
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    31He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.