2 Give us permission to go to the Jordan and cut down some trees, so that we can build a place to live.”“All right,” Elisha answered.
3 One of them urged him to go with them; he agreed,
4 and they set out together. When they arrived at the Jordan, they began to work.
5 As one of them was cutting down a tree, suddenly his iron axe head fell in the water. “What shall I do, sir?” he exclaimed to Elisha. “It was a borrowed axe!”
6 “Where did it fall?” Elisha asked.The man showed him the place, and Elisha cut off a stick, threw it in the water, and made the axe head float.
7 “Take it out,” he ordered, and the man bent down and picked it up.
8 The king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his officers and chose a place to set up his camp.