1 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha: "Behold, the place in which we live before you is too narrow for us.
2 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."
3 And one of them said, "Then you, too, should go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
4 And he went with them. And when they had arrived at the Jordan, they were cutting down wood.
5 Then it happened that, while someone was cutting timber, the iron of the ax fell into the water. And he cried out and said: "Alas, alas, alas, my lord! For this thing was borrowed."