2 Kings 6:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But it fortuned, that as one was felling downe of a tree, the axe head fell into the water: And he cryed, and saide, Alas maister, it was lent me.

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  • Rev 18:10 : 10 And shall stande a farre of for feare of her punishment, saying: Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that myghtie citie, for at one houre is thy iudgement come.
  • Rev 18:16 : 16 And saying: Alas, alas, that great citie, that was clothed in raynes, and purple, and skarlet, and decked with golde and precious stones, and pearles:
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 And they cast dust on their heades, & cryed, wepyng & waylyng, and saying: Alas, alas, that great citie, wherein were made riche all that had shippes in the sea, by reason of her costlynesse, for at one houre is she made desolate.
  • Exod 22:14-15 : 14 And if a man borowe ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or els dye, and the owner therof be not by: he shall surely make it good. 15 But if the owner therof be by, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
  • 2 Kgs 3:10 : 10 And the king of Israel saide: Alas, the Lorde hath called these three kinges together, to deliuer them ouer into the hande of Moab.
  • 2 Kgs 4:7 : 7 Then she came and tolde the man of God: And he sayde, Go, and sell the oyle, and pay them that thou art in debt vnto: but lyue thou and thy children of the rest.
  • 2 Kgs 6:15 : 15 And when the seruaunt of the man of God rose vp early to go out: beholde, there was an hoast rounde about the towne with horses & charets: And his seruaunt sayde vnto him, Alas maister, what shall we do?
  • Ps 37:21 : 21 The vngodly boroweth and payeth not agayne: but the righteous geueth mercifully and liberally.
  • Eccl 10:10 : 10 When an iron is blunt and the poynt not sharpened, it must be whet agayne, and that with might: Euen so doth wisdome folowe diligence.
  • Isa 10:34 : 34 The thickets also of the wood shall he roote out with iron, and Libanus shall haue a fall thorowe the mightie.

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  • 2 Kgs 6:6-7
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    6And the man of God saide: Where fell it? And he shewed him the place: And he cut downe a sticke, and cast it in thyther, and immediatly the iron did swymme.

    7Therfore sayde he: Take it vp. And he stretched out his hand, and toke it vp.

  • 2 Kgs 6:2-4
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    2Let vs go we pray thee vnto Iordane, & take thence euery man a beame, & build vs a place to dwel in. And he aunswered, Go.

    3And one saide: Be content I pray thee, and come with thy seruauntes. And he aunswered: I wyll come.

    4And so he went with them: And when they came to Iordane, they cut downe wood.

  • 15Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therwith? or shal the sawe make any bragging against hym that ruleth it? That were euen lyke as if the rod did exalt it selfe against him that beareth it, or as though the staffe should magnifie it selfe as who say it were no wood.

  • 5And whe a man goeth vnto the wood with his neighbour to hewe wood, and as his hande fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut downe the tree, the head slippeth from the helue, and smyteth his neighbour that he dyeth: the same shall flee vnto one of the same cities, and lyue:

  • Ps 74:5-6
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    5He that hewed tymber afore out of thicke woddes for to builde the temple: was esteemed as one offeryng a present to God aboue.

    6But nowe they breake downe into peeces all the carued worke therof: with axes and hammers.

  • Eccl 10:9-10
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    9Who so remoueth stones, shall haue trauayle withall: and he that heweth wood, shalbe hurt therwith.

    10When an iron is blunt and the poynt not sharpened, it must be whet agayne, and that with might: Euen so doth wisdome folowe diligence.

  • 3He saide vnto her: Go, and borow vessels for thee of them that are without, euen of all thy neighbours, emptie vessels, and that not a fewe:

  • 13They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood.

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    20But all the Israelites went downe to the Philistines, to mende euery man his share, his mattocke, his axe, & weeding hooke.

    21Yet they had a file for the shares, for the mattockes, for the pickforkes, and for the axes, and for to sharpen to goades.

  • 1And there cryed a certayne woman of the wyues of the sonnes of the prophetes, vnto Elisa, saying: Thy seruaunt my husband is dead, & thou knowest that thy seruaunt did feare the Lorde: And the creditor is come to fet my two sonnes to be his bondmen.

  • 12The smith maketh an axe, and tempereth it with hotte coales, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with all the strength of his armes, yea sometime he is fainte for very hunger, and so thirstie that he hath no more power.

  • 4We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money.

  • Ezek 15:3-4
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    3Do men take wood of it to make any worke withall? or wyll men take a pin of it to hang any vessell theron?

    4Behold, it is cast in the fire to be brent, the fire consumeth both the endes of it, the middes of it is brent: is it meete then for any worke?

  • 39And when the king came by, he cryed vnto the king, and sayde: Thy seruaunt wet out in the middes of the battel, and behold there went away a man, whom another man brought vnto me, & sayde, Kepe this man: and if he be myssed or lost, thy lyfe shall go for his, or els thou shalt pay a talent of siluer.

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    13He toke vp also the mantell of Elias that fell from him, and went backe againe, and stoode by Iordanes syde.

    14And toke the mantel of Elias that fel from him, and smote the waters, & he said: Where is the Lord God of Elias, & he him selfe? And when he had smitten the waters, they parted this waye and that waye: and Elisa went ouer.

  • 6Euen vnto carpenters and masons, and workers vpon the walles, and for to bye tymber and free stone, to repaire the temple.

  • 1 Kgs 13:5-6
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    5The aulter also claue asunder, and the ashes fell out from the aulter, according to the token which the man of God had geuen by the worde of the Lorde.

    6And the king aunswered, and sayd vnto the man of God: Oh pray vnto the Lorde thy God, and make intercession for me, that my hande may be restored me againe. And the ma of God besought the Lord, and the kinges hand was restored againe, and became as it was afore.

  • 6And thy hande mayde had two sonnes, and they two fought together in the fielde, where was no man to go betweene them, but the one smote the other, and slue him.

  • 16And we will cut wood in Libanon as much as thou shalt neede, and wil bring it to thee in flotes by sea to Iapho, from whence thou mayest cary them to Hierusalem.

  • 11For the stone shall crye out of the wal, and the beame out of the timber shall aunswere it.

  • 6And it came to passe, that when the vessels were ful, she said vnto her sonne: Bryng me yet a vessel. And he said vnto her: I haue no mo. And ye oyle ceassed.

  • 11For behold the Lord commaundeth, and he will smyte the great house with breaches, & the litle houses with cleftes.

  • 6And when they came to Nachons thresshing floore, Uzza put his hand to the arke of God, & helde it, for the oxen did shake it.

  • Luke 5:6-7
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    6And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fisshes: But their nette brake.

    7And they beckened vnto their felowes, which were in the other shippe, that they shoulde come, and helpe them. And they came, and fylled both the shippes, that they suncke agayne.

  • 21And he cryed vnto the man of God that came from Iuda, saying, Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lorde, and hast not kept the commaundement which the Lorde thy God commaunded thee:

  • 23And nowe are ye cursed, and there shal not ceasse to be of you bondmen, and hewers of wood, & drawers of water for the house of my God.

  • 31Then he sayd: God do so & more also to me, if the head of Elisa the sonne of Saphat shall stande on him this day.

  • 7Our bones lye scattered vpon the graues mouth: lyke as when one breaketh and heweth wood vpon the earth.

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    18And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day that he went out to his father, and to the reapers,

    19And he said vnto his father: My head, my head. And he saide to a lad: Cary him to his mother.

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    26And as the king of Israel was goyng vpon the wal, there cryed a woman vnto him, saying: Help me my lord O king.

    27He sayde: If the Lorde do not succour thee, wherwith can I helpe thee? with the barne, or with the wine presse?

  • 1Lay thy bread vpon wette faces, and so shalt thou finde it after many dayes.

  • 7And the house was built of stone, made perfect alredye before it was brought thyther: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, either any toole of iron heard in the house while it was in buylding.

  • 9Nowe also is the axe layed vnto the roote of the trees: Euery tree therfore which bryngeth not foorth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

  • 16Before these thinges were done when one came to a heape of twentie measures there were but ten: so who came to the wyne presse for to drawe out fiftie vessels of wyne out of the presse, there were but twentie.

  • 6Now therefore commaund thou that they hewe me Cedar trees out of Libanon, & my seruautes shalbe with thyne, and vnto thee wyll I geue the hyre for thy seruauntes, accordyng to all such thinges as thou shalt appoynt: for thou knowest that there are not among vs that can skyl to hewe tymber, lyke vnto the Sidones.

  • 12Doth one iron hurt another? or one metall that commeth from the north another?