2 Kings 6:4

2 Kings chapter 6 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

King James Version · 1611

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

American Standard Version · 1901

So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

v.3And one said, Be pleased, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

v.4This passage

v.5But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Deuteronomy 29:11
your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;
Deuteronomy 19:5
as when a man goeth into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbor, so that he dieth; he shall flee unto one of these cities and live: