1. One day the group of prophets came to Elisha and told him, “As you can see, this place where we meet with you is too small.
2. Let’s go down to the Jordan River, where there are plenty of logs. There we can build a new place for us to meet.”“All right,” he told them, “go ahead.”
3. “Please come with us,” someone suggested.“I will,” he said.
4. So he went with them.When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees.
5. But as one of them was cutting a tree, his ax head fell into the river. “Oh, sir!” he cried. “It was a borrowed ax!”
6. “Where did it fall?” the man of God asked. When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water at that spot. Then the ax head floated to the surface.
7. “Grab it,” Elisha said. And the man reached out and grabbed it.
8. When the king of Aram was at war with Israel, he would confer with his officers and say, “We will mobilize our forces at such and such a place.”
9. But immediately Elisha, the man of God, would warn the king of Israel, “Do not go near that place, for the Arameans are planning to mobilize their troops there.”