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6:1 Some of the prophets <05030> said <0559> to <0413> Elisha <0477>, “Look <02009>, the place <04725> where <0834> we <0587> meet <03427> with <06440> you is too cramped <06862> for <04480> us. 6:2 Let’s go <01980> to <05704> the Jordan <03383>. Each <0376> of us will get <03947> a <0259> log <06982> from there <08033> and we will build <06213> a meeting place <04725> for ourselves there <08033>.” He said <0559>, “Go <01980>.” 6:3 One <0259> of them said <0559>, “Please <02974> come <01980> along with <0854> your servants <05650>.” He replied <0559>, “All right, I’ll <0589> come <01980>.” 6:4 So he went <01980> with <0854> them. When they arrived <0935> at the Jordan <03383>, they started cutting down <01504> trees <06086>. 6:5 As <01961> one <0259> of them was felling <05307> a log <06982>, the ax head <01270> dropped <05307> into <0413> the water <04325>. He shouted <06817>, “Oh no <0162>, my master <0113>! It <01931> was borrowed <07592>!” 6:6 The prophet <0430> <0376> asked <0559>, “Where <0575> did it drop <05307> in?” When he showed <07200> him the spot <04725>, Elisha cut off <07094> a branch <06086>, threw <07993> it in at that spot, and made the ax head <01270> float <06687>. 6:7 He said <0559>, “Lift <07311> it out.” So he reached <07971> out his hand <03027> and grabbed <03947> it. 6:8 Now the king <04428> of Syria <0758> was <01961> at war <03898> with Israel <03478>. He consulted <03289> his advisers <05650>, who said <0559>, “Invade <08466> at such <06423> and such <0492> a place <04725>.” 6:9 But the prophet <0430> <0376> sent <07971> this message to <0413> the king <04428> of Israel <03478>, “Make sure <08104> you don’t pass <05674> through this <02088> place <04725> because <03588> Syria <0758> is invading <05181> there <08033>.” 6:10 So the king <04428> of Israel <03478> sent <07971> a message to <0413> the place <04725> the prophet <0430> <0376> had pointed out <0559>, warning <02094> it to be on its guard <08104>. This happened on several occasions <08147> <03808> <0259> <03808>.

• 2Ki 6:1-7 -- Elisha Makes an Ax Head Float
• 2Ki 6:8-23 -- Elisha Defeats an Army

• Tirza

  [ebd] pleasantness. (1.) An old royal city of the Canaanites, which was destroyed by Joshua (Josh. 12:24). Jeroboam chose it for his residence, and he removed to it from Shechem, which at first he made the capital of his kingdom. ...
  

• TAKE

  [isbe] TAKE - tak: Most of the very numerous examples of this word are still in good use and only a few call for special attention. "To take" in the sense of "capture" is still common, but when a person or living animal is in point...
  

• STRAIT; STRAITEN; STRAITLY

  [isbe] STRAIT; STRAITEN; STRAITLY - strat, strat'-'-n, strat'-il: The word "strait" and its compounds are used in English Versions of the Bible in the literal sense of "narrow" (tsar, 2 Ki 6:1; Isa 49:20; mutsaq, Job 37:10; 'atsal,...
  

• SAMARIA, CITY OF

  [isbe] SAMARIA, CITY OF - sa-ma'-ri-a, (shomeron; Samareia, Semeron, and other forms): (1) Shechem was the first capital of the Northern Kingdom (1 Ki 12:25). Jeroboam seems later to have removed the royal residence to Tirzah (1 Ki...
  

• PROPHET

  [smith] The ordinary Hebrew word for prophet is nabi , derived from a verb signifying "to bubble forth" like a fountain; hence the word means one who announces or pours forth the declarations of God. The English word comes from the G...
  

• PROPHECY; PROPHETS, 2

  [isbe] PROPHECY; PROPHETS, 2 - II. Historical Development of the Prophetic Office. 1. Abraham: It is a characteristic peculiarity of the religion of the Old Testament that its very elementary beginnings are of a prophetical nature....
  

• NUMBER

  [isbe] NUMBER - num'-ber: I. NUMBER AND ARITHMETIC II. NOTATION OF NUMBERS 1. By Words 2. By Signs 3. By Letters III. NUMBERS IN OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY IV. ROUND NUMBERS V. SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS 1. Seven and Its Multiples (1) Ritual U...
  

• Joram

  [nave] JORAM 1. A son of Toi, 2 Sam. 8:9, 10. Called Hadoram, 1 Chr. 18:10. 2. Called also Jehoram. King of Israel, 2 Kin. 1:17; 3:1. King of Syria sends Naaman to, that he may be healed of his leprosy, 2 Kin. 5:1-27. Has war w...
  

• JEHOASH; JOASH

  [isbe] JEHOASH; JOASH - je-ho'-ash, the uncontracted form of (yeho'ash, yo'ash, "Yahweh has bestowed"; compare 2 Ki 11:2,21; 12:1,19; 2 Ch 24:1, etc.; Ioas): (1) The 9th king of Judah; son of Ahaziah and Zibiah, a woman of Beersheb...
  

• JEHOAHAZ

  [isbe] JEHOAHAZ - je-ho'-a-haz, je-ho-a'-haz (yeho'achaz, "Yah has grasped"; Ioachas; 2 Ki 13:1-9): (1) Son of Jehu, and 11th king of Israel. He is stated to have reigned 17 years. 1. Chronology of Reign: Josephus was already aware...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• IRON (1)

  [isbe] IRON (1) - i'-urn (barzel; sideros): It is generally believed that the art of separating iron from its ores and making it into useful forms was not known much earlier than 1000 BC, and that the making of brass (bronze) anted...
  

• IMMANUEL

  [isbe] IMMANUEL - i-man'-u-el (`immanu'el): The name occurs but 3 times, twice in the Old Testament (Isa 7:14; 8:8), and once in the New Testament (Mt 1:23). It is a Hebrew word signifying "God is with us." The form "Emmanuel" appe...
  

• HEAD

  [isbe] HEAD - hed (ro'-sh, Aramaic re'sh, and in special sense gulgoleth, literally, "skull," "cut-off head" (1 Ch 10:10), whence Golgotha (Mt 27:33; Mk 15:22; Jn 19:17); mera'ashah, literally, "head-rest," "pillow," "bolster" (1 K...
  

• DISCIPLE

  [isbe] DISCIPLE - di-si'-p'-l: (1) Usually a substantive (mathetes, "a learner," from manthano, "to learn"; Latin discipulus, "a scholar"): The word is found in the Bible only in the Gospels and Acts. But it is good Greek, in use f...
  

• Ben-hadad

  [nave] BEN-HADAD 1. King of Syria, 1 Kin. 15:18-20; 2 Chr. 16:2-4. 2. A king of Syria, who reigned in the time of Ahab, son of Ben-hadad I, 1 Kin. 20; 2 Kin. 5; 6; 7; 8:7-15. 3. Son of Hazael and king of Syria, 2 Kin. 13:3, 24, 2...
  

• BENHADAD

  [isbe] BENHADAD - ben-ha'-dad (ben-hadhadh; Septuagint huios Hader): The Name I. BENHADAD I 1. The Kingdom of Syria Founded 2. Syria and Judah 3. Shortsightedness of Asa II. BENHADAD II 1. Hadad-'idri of the Monuments 2. Expedition...
  

• BEAM

  [ebd] occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew words. In 1 Sam. 17:7, it means a weaver's frame or principal beam; in Hab. 2:11, a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-piece or rafter of a house;...
  [isbe] BEAM - bem: The word is used to translate various Old Testament terms: (1) gebh (1 Ki 6:9), tsela`, "a rib" (1 Ki 7:3), qurah (2 Ch 3:7; 34:11; Song 1:17), all refer to constructional beams used in buildings for roofing and ...
  

• Axe

  [ebd] used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping." It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building. It is the rendering of ...
  

• AX (AXE); AX-HEAD

  [isbe] AX (AXE); AX-HEAD - aks; aks'hed: Nine different Hebrew words have been rendered "ax": (1) garzen. This unquestionably was one of the larger chopping instruments, as the uses to which it was put would imply (Dt 19:5; 20:19; ...
  

• An Axhead Floats

  

• The Arameans Struck by Blindness

  

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