2 Kings 6:5
But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”
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2 Kings 6:5
But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”
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2 Kings 6:1
The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.
2 Kings 6:2
Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” He answered, “Go!”
2 Kings 6:3
One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.” He answered, “I will go.”
2 Kings 6:4
So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
2 Kings 6:5
But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”
2 Kings 6:6
The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
2 Kings 6:7
He said, “Take it.” So he put out his hand and took it.
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Exodus 22:14
“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
2 Kings 4:3
Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
Psalms 37:21
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.
Matthew 5:42
Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
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Deuteronomy 19:5
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
2 Samuel 12:31
He brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them go to the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 10:34
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
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2 Kings 6:15
When the servant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
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