◄ 2 Kings 6:9 ►
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Good News Translation
But Elisha sent word to the king of Israel, warning him not to go near that place, because the Syrians were waiting in ambush there.

New Revised Standard Version
But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Take care not to pass this place, because the Arameans are going down there.”

Contemporary English Version
Each time, Elisha would send this warning to the king of Israel: "Don't go near there. That's where the Syrian troops have set up camp."

New American Bible
But the man of God would send word to the king of Israel, “Be careful! Do not pass by this place, for Aram will attack there.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.

Beware

2 Kings 3:17-19 For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and yet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you and your families, and your beasts. . . .

1 Kings 20:13,28 And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of Israel, said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great multitude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou mayst know that I am the Lord. . . .

thither the Syrians

2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

Amos 3:7 For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John,

Context
Elisha Captures the Blinded Arameans
8And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying: In such and such a place, let us lay an ambush. 9And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.10And the king of Israel, sent to the place which the man of God had told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not once nor twice.…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

2 Kings 4:7
And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.

2 Kings 6:8
And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying: In such and such a place, let us lay an ambush.

2 Kings 6:10
And the king of Israel, sent to the place which the man of God had told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not once nor twice.

2 Kings 6:12
And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but Eliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.

Jeremiah 11:18
But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I have known: then thou shewedst me their doings.

2 Kings 6:8
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