3. One of them then said, “Please! Come along with us!”He said, “Certainly.”
4-5. He went with them. They came to the Jordan and started chopping down trees. As one of them was felling a timber, his axhead flew off and sank in the river.“Oh no, master!” he cried out. “And it was borrowed!”
6. The Holy Man said, “Where did it sink?”The man showed him the place.He cut off a branch and tossed it at the spot. The axhead floated up.
7. “Grab it,” he said. The man reached out and took it.
8. One time when the king of Aram was at war with Israel, after consulting with his officers, he said, “At such and such a place I want an ambush set.”
30-31. When the king heard the woman’s story he ripped apart his robe. Since he was walking on the city wall, everyone saw that next to his skin he was wearing coarse burlap. And he called out, “God do his worst to me—and more—if Elisha son of Shaphat still has a head on his shoulders at this day’s end.”