King James Version
2 Kings 6:3 in the King James Version says “And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.”
2 Kings 6:3 · KJV
And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. axe head: Heb. iron
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Be content”
H2974properly, to yield, especially assent; hence (pos.) to undertake as an act of volition
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
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