2 Kings 6:5-7

axe head. Heb. iron.

Ec 10:10; Isa 10:34

Alas, master.

15; 3:10; Re 18:10,16,19

for it was borrowed.

4:7; Ex 22:14,15; Ps 37:21

he cut down.This could have no natural tendency to raise the iron and cause it to swim: it was only a sign, or ceremony, which the prophet chose to employ on the occasion.

2:21; 4:41; Ex 15:25; Mr 7:33,34; 8:23-25; Joh 9:6,7

the iron.This was the real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must otherwise still have kept it at the bottom of the river.

Take it up.

4:7,36; Lu 7:15; Ac 9:41

put out.

Ex 4:4
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