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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.
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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.”
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“Please come with us,” someone suggested.
“I will,” he said.
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So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees.
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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!”
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“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.
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“Grab it,” Elisha said. And the man reached out and grabbed it.