1. Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Behold now, the place where we are living in your presence is too cramped for us.
2. So please, let’s go to the Jordan and pick from there each one a beam, and make ourselves a place there to live.” “Go,” he answered.
3. Then one of them said, “Will you please come with your servants?” “I will go,” he answered.
4. So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down trees.
5. But as one of them was cutting down a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, “Ah, my master! It was borrowed.”
6. Then the man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it there, and made the ax head float.
7. Then he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” So he reached out his hand and took it.
8. Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel. He consulted with his officers, saying, “In such and such a place will be my camp.”
9. But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, saying, “Be careful not to pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there.”