1. The guild prophets once said to Elisha: “This place where we live with you is too cramped for us.
2. Let us go to the Jordan, where by getting one beam apiece we can build ourselves a place to live.” Elisha said, “Go.”
3. One of them requested, “Please agree to accompany your servants.” He replied, “Yes, I will come.”
4. So he went with them, and when they arrived at the Jordan they began to cut down trees.
5. While one of them was felling a tree trunk, the iron ax blade slipped into the water. He cried out, “Oh, no, master! It was borrowed!”
6. “Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. When he pointed out the spot, Elisha cut off a stick, threw it into the water, and brought the iron to the surface.