1. Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us.
2. Please let us go to the Jordan and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live." So he said, "Go."
3. Then one said, "Please be willing to go with your servants." And he answered, "I shall go."
4. So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
5. But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."
6. Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float.
7. He said, "Take it up for yourself." So he put out his hand and took it.
8. Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel; and he counseled with his servants saying, "In such and such a place shall be my camp."
9. The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there."
10. The king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God had told him; thus he warned him, so that he guarded himself there, more than once or twice.
11. Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?"