2 Kings 6:3 (YLT)

Passage

And the one saith, `Be pleased, I pray thee, and go with thy servants;' and he saith, `I--I go.'

Nearby Context

2 Kings 6:1 And sons of the prophet say unto Elisha, `Lo, we pray thee, the place where we are dwelling before thee is too strait for us;

2 Kings 6:2 let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and we take thence each one beam, and we make for ourselves there a place to dwell there;' and he saith, `Go.'

2 Kings 6:3 And the one saith, `Be pleased, I pray thee, and go with thy servants;' and he saith, `I--I go.'

2 Kings 6:4 And he goeth with them, and they come in to the Jordan, and cut down the trees,

2 Kings 6:5 and it cometh to pass, the one is felling the beam, and the iron hath fallen into the water, and he crieth and saith, `Alas! my lord, and it asked!'

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "saith", "pleased", "pray", "thee", "servants", and "i--i". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "saith" and "pleased", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "let us go we pray thee unto..." into verse 4's "And he goeth with them and they...", so "saith" and "pleased" belong inside that flow. In 2 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "saith" and "pleased" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.