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2 Kings 6:1–7, “And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go. So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim. Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.”
Elisha’s friends, the trainee prophets discovered that they couldn’t completely feed themselves on the land they had available and their accommodation was smaller than they needed so they approached to prophet and asked him if they should move to a larger place. He told them to move and they began to build a new, larger, place to live. One of the men was working with an axe to prepare some timber for the building but the head of the axe wasn’t properly attached and it flew off and fell into the water. The man was deeply concerned because he had borrowed the axe and had no way of replacing it. He asked the prophet for help and showed Elisha were the axe had fallen into the water. Elisha cut a small branch from a nearby tree and threw it into the water. Miraculously, the axe head floated to the top of the water and the man was able to retrieve it.
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