2 Kings 6:1-13
<01121> [the sons.]
place <04725> [the place.]
cramped <06862> [too strait for us.]
Each ..... get .... from <03947 0376> [and take thence.]
Please <02974> [Be content.]
servants <03212 05650> [go with thy.]
cutting down trees <01504 06086> [they cut down wood.]
ax head <01270> [axe head. Heb. iron.]
Oh .... master <0162 0113> [Alas, master.]
borrowed <07592> [for it was borrowed.]
cut off <07094> [he cut down.]
This could have no natural tendency to raise the iron and cause it to swim: it was only a sign, or ceremony, which the prophet chose to employ on the occasion.
ax head <01270> [the iron.]
This was the real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must otherwise still have kept it at the bottom of the river.
Lift <07311> [Take it up.]
reached <07971> [put out.]
king <04428> [the king.]
consulted <03289> [took.]
Invade <08466> [camp. or, encamping.]
sure <08104> [Beware.]
Syria <0758> [thither the Syrians.]
sent ...... place <07971 04725> [sent to the place.]
To see if it were so. But the Vulgate renders, {misit rex Israel ad locum, et pr‘occupavit eum;} "the king of Israel sent to the place, and pre-occupied it;" which is very likely, though not expressed in the Hebrew text.
warning ....... guard <02094 08104> [warned him.]
guard <08104> [saved.]
upset <03820> [Therefore.]
helping <05046> [Will ye not.]
master <0113> [None. Heb. No. Elisha.]
telling <05046> [telleth.]
[thy bed chamber.]
find out where <0351 07200> [spy where.]
Dothan <01886> [Dothan.]
This is supposed to be the same place where Joseph was sold by his brethren; and it is placed by Eusebius 12 miles north of Samaria.
