2. Let us please go to the Jordan and each bring from there one log that we might make a place there for us to live.” Then he said, “Do so.”
3. Then a certain one said, “Please be prepared and go with your servants,” and he said, “I will go.”
4. He went with them, and they went to the Jordan, and they cut down the trees.
5. It happened as the one was felling the log, that the iron ax fell into the water. He called out and said, “Oh, no! My master, it was borrowed!”
6. Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” So he showed him the place, and then he cut off a stick and threw it there and made the iron ax float.
7. Then he said, “Pick it up for yourself,” so he stretched out his hand and took it.
8. The king of Aram was fighting with Israel, so he consulted with his officers, saying, “My camp is at such and such a place.”
9. Then the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Take care while crossing over to this place, because the Arameans are descending there.”
10. So the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God said to him and warned him, so he was on guard there continually.
11. Then the heart of the king of Aram was stormy because of this matter, so he called his servants and said to them, “Can you not tell me who among us sides with the king of Israel?”
12. Then one of his servants said, “No, my lord the king, but Elisha the prophet who is in Israel tells the king of Israel things which you speak in your own bedchamber.”
13. Then he said, “Go and see where he is so that I can send and capture him.” Then he was told to him, “Look, he is in Dothan.”
14. So he sent horses, chariots, and an oppressing army there. They arrived at night and surrounded the town.
15. The attendant of the man of God arose early and went out, and look, the army was surrounding the city with horses and chariots. His servant said to him, “Oh no, my master! What shall we do?”
16. And he said, “Don’t be afraid, for more are with us than are with them.”
17. Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Yahweh, please open his eyes that he may see,” and Yahweh opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw, and look, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
18. They came down to him, and Elisha prayed to Yahweh and said, “Please strike this people with blindness,” so he struck them with blindness as Elisha had spoken.