2 Kings 6:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Rev 18:10 : 10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'
  • Rev 18:16 : 16 saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.
  • Exod 22:14-15 : 14 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. 15 If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
  • 2 Kgs 3:10 : 10 The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
  • 2 Kgs 4:7 : 7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.
  • 2 Kgs 6:15 : 15 When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
  • Ps 37:21 : 21 The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, But the righteous give generously.
  • Eccl 10:10 : 10 If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
  • Isa 10:34 : 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

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    6 The man of God said, Where fell it? He shown him the place. He cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to swim.

    7 He said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.

  • 2 Kgs 6:2-4
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    2 Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He answered, Go you.

    3 One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.

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

  • Isa 10:15
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    15 Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.

  • Deut 19:5
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    5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

  • Ps 74:5-6
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    5 They behaved like men wielding axes, Cutting through a thicket of trees.

    6 Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.

  • Eccl 10:9-10
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    9 Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby.

    10 If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

  • 2 Kgs 4:3
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    3 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

  • Lam 5:13
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    13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

  • 1 Sam 13:20-21
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    20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;

    21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1
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    1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.

  • Isa 44:12
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    12 The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

  • Lam 5:4
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    4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

  • Ezek 15:3-4
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    3 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

    4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
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    39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.

  • 2 Kgs 2:13-14
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    13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

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

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
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    6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

  • 1 Kgs 13:5-6
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    5 The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of Yahweh.

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    6 Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

  • 2 Chr 2:16
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    16 and 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.

  • Hab 2:11
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    11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

  • 2 Kgs 4:6
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    6 It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel. The oil stayed.

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    11 "For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, And the little house into bits.

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    6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled.

  • Luke 5:6-7
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    6 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

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  • 1 Kgs 13:21
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    21 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

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    23 Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
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    31 Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:18-19
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    18 When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

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  • 2 Kgs 6:26-27
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    26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

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    7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

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    12 Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?