2 Kings 6:4
 2 Kings 6:4 
New International Version (©2011)
And he went with them. They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So he went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So he accompanied them, and when they came to the Jordan River, they cut down some trees.

NET Bible (©2006)
So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So he went with them. They came to the Jordan River and began to cut down trees.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

American King James Version
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

American Standard Version
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan they cut down wood.

Darby Bible Translation
And he went with them. And they came to the Jordan and cut down the trees.

English Revised Version
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

Webster's Bible Translation
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And he goeth with them, and they come in to the Jordan, and cut down the trees,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-7 There is that pleasantness in the converse of servants of God, which can make those who listen to them forget the pain and the weariness of labour. Even the sons of the prophets must not be unwilling to labour. Let no man think an honest employment a burden or a disgrace. And labour of the head, is as hard, and very often harder, than labour with the hands. We ought to be careful of that which is borrowed, as of our own, because we must do as we would be done by. This man was so respecting the axe-head. And to those who have an honest mind, the sorest grievance of poverty is, not so much their own want and disgrace, as being rendered unable to pay just debts. But the Lord cares for his people in their smallest concerns. And God's grace can thus raise the stony iron heart, which is sunk into the mud of this world, and raise up affections, naturally earthly.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan - i.e. to the river-bank - they cut down wood. They set to work, each felling his tree, and fashioning it into a rough beam.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. Trees which grew upon the banks of it, to build their house with, at least for the rafters and flooring of it, supposing the walls to be built of stone.


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The Axe Head Floats
3And one said, Be content, I pray you, and go with your servants. And he answered, I will go. 4So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. 5But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. …

2 Kings 6:3 Then one of them said, "Won't you please come with your servants?" "I will," Elisha replied.
2 Kings 6:5 As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. "Oh no, my lord!" he cried out. "It was borrowed!"