2 Kings 6:1-7

Living Bible

6 ^1-2 One day the seminary students came to Elisha and told him, “As you can see, our dormitory is too small. Tell us, as our president, whether we can build a new one down beside the Jordan River, where there are plenty of logs.”

“All right,” he told them, “go ahead.”

³ “Please, sir, come with us,” someone suggested.

“I will,” he said.

⁴ When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees; ⁵ but as one of them was chopping, his axhead fell into the river.

“Oh, sir,” he cried, “it was borrowed!”

⁶ “Where did it fall?” the prophet asked. The youth showed him the place, and Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water; and the axhead rose to the surface and floated! ⁷ “Grab it,” Elisha said to him; and he did.