2 Kings 6

1The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.Cross-references: Josh 17:14 · Josh 19:47 · 1Sam 19:20 · 1Ki 20:35 · 2Ki 2:3 · 2Ki 4:1 · +4 more

2Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” He answered, “Go!”Cross-references: John 21:3 · Acts 18:3 · Acts 20:34 · 1Cor 9:6 · 1Thess 2:9 · 2Thess 3:8 · +1 more

3One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.” He answered, “I will go.”Cross-references: Judg 4:8 · Judg 19:6 · 2Ki 5:23 · Job 6:28

4So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.Cross-references: Deut 19:5 · Deut 29:11

5But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”Cross-references: Ex 22:14 · 2Ki 3:10 · 2Ki 4:7 · 2Ki 6:15 · Ps 37:21 · Eccl 10:10 · +4 more

6The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.Cross-references: Ex 15:25 · 2Ki 2:21 · 2Ki 4:41 · Mark 7:33 · Mark 8:23 · John 9:6

7He said, “Take it.” So he put out his hand and took it.Cross-references: Ex 4:4 · 2Ki 4:7 · 2Ki 4:36 · Luke 7:15 · Acts 9:41

8Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”Cross-references: 1Ki 20:1 · 1Ki 20:23 · 1Ki 20:34 · 1Ki 22:31 · 2Ki 6:24 · Job 5:12 · +4 more

9The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there.”Cross-references: 1Ki 20:13 · 1Ki 20:28 · 2Ki 3:17 · 2Ki 4:27 · 2Ki 6:12 · Amos 3:7 · +1 more

10The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.Cross-references: Ex 9:20 · 1Ki 20:15 · 2Ki 2:12 · 2Ki 5:14 · 2Ki 13:14 · 2Chr 20:20 · +8 more

11The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”Cross-references: 1Sam 22:8 · 1Sam 28:21 · Job 18:7 · Ps 48:4 · Isa 57:20 · Matt 2:3

12One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”Cross-references: 2Ki 5:3 · 2Ki 5:8 · 2Ki 5:13 · 2Ki 6:9 · Ps 139:1 · Eccl 10:20 · +7 more

13He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.” He was told, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”Cross-references: Gen 37:17 · 1Sam 23:22 · Ps 10:8 · Ps 37:12 · Ps 37:32 · Jer 36:26 · +3 more

14Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night and surrounded the city.Cross-references: 1Sam 23:26 · 1Sam 24:2 · 2Ki 1:9 · 2Ki 18:17 · Matt 26:47 · Matt 26:55 · +1 more

15When the servant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”Cross-references: Ex 24:13 · 1Ki 19:21 · 2Ki 3:11 · 2Ki 5:20 · 2Ki 5:27 · 2Ki 6:5 · +5 more

16He answered, “Don’t be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · 2Chr 16:9 · 2Chr 32:7 · Ps 3:6 · Ps 11:1 · Ps 27:3 · +13 more

17Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.Cross-references: 2Ki 2:11 · 2Ki 6:18 · Ps 34:7 · Ps 68:17 · Ps 91:11 · Ps 91:15 · +14 more

18When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elisha’s word.Cross-references: Gen 19:11 · Deut 28:28 · Job 5:14 · Zech 12:4 · John 9:39 · John 12:40 · +2 more

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.Cross-references: 2Sam 16:18 · Matt 16:24 · Mark 8:34 · Luke 9:23 · Luke 24:16

20When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.” Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.Cross-references: Judg 20:40 · 2Ki 6:17 · Luke 16:23 · Luke 24:31

21The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”Cross-references: 1Sam 24:4 · 1Sam 24:19 · 1Sam 26:8 · 2Ki 2:12 · 2Ki 5:13 · 2Ki 8:9 · +3 more

22He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, then go to their master.”Cross-references: Gen 48:22 · Deut 20:11 · Josh 24:12 · 2Chr 28:8 · Ps 44:6 · Prov 25:21 · +4 more

23He prepared a great feast for them. After they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:17 · 2Ki 5:2 · 2Ki 6:8 · 2Ki 24:2 · 2Chr 28:15 · Prov 25:21 · +3 more

24After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.Cross-references: Deut 28:52 · 1Ki 20:1 · 1Ki 22:31 · 2Ki 17:5 · 2Ki 18:9 · 2Ki 25:1 · +1 more

25There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.Cross-references: Lev 26:26 · 1Ki 18:2 · 2Ki 6:28 · 2Ki 7:4 · 2Ki 25:3 · Jer 14:13 · +4 more

26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”Cross-references: 2Sam 14:4 · Isa 10:3 · Luke 18:3 · Acts 21:28

27He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”Cross-references: Ps 60:11 · Ps 62:8 · Ps 118:8 · Ps 124:1 · Ps 127:1 · Ps 146:3 · +2 more

28Then the king asked her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’Cross-references: Gen 21:17 · Lev 26:29 · Deut 28:53 · Judg 18:23 · 1Sam 1:8 · 2Sam 14:5 · +8 more

29So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”Cross-references: Lev 26:29 · Deut 28:53 · Deut 28:57 · 1Ki 3:26 · Isa 49:15 · Isa 66:13

30When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:27 · 2Ki 5:7 · 2Ki 19:1 · Isa 58:5

31Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”Cross-references: Ruth 1:17 · 1Sam 3:17 · 1Sam 14:44 · 1Sam 25:22 · 2Sam 3:9 · 2Sam 3:35 · +9 more

32But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”Cross-references: 1Ki 14:6 · 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 18:13 · 1Ki 21:10 · 1Ki 21:13 · 2Ki 5:26 · +6 more

33While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”Cross-references: Gen 4:13 · Ex 16:6 · 1Sam 28:6 · 1Sam 31:4 · Job 1:11 · Job 1:21 · +20 more