The Floating Ax Head. II Kings 6

 

II Kings 6 – The Floating Ax Head

 

Elisha taught in the school of the prophets. The school grew and they needed larger quarters. These students went out to work, to build a larger school and Elisha encouraged them in it.  They'd asked Elisha to go with them and while they were working one of them lost an axe head into the waters. the loss of an axe head was very important to this young man and of course he had borrowed it. Obviously, there was a danger of an axe head coming off.  It evidently was something that occurred quite frequently. The boy was distressed, and he could not reimburse the owner. The Jordan river was a muddy river, but the young man knew right where it was only, he could not get it because he could not see it. It is a miracle when iron swims. Elisha had cut down a stick and he cast it into the waters of death. That stick is the cross of Christ. Our Lord came down to that cross and he went down into the waters of death for you and me. Men today can rise from the waters of death and judgment through Christ.

 The king of Syria was disturbed because every plan he made and every place he went was discovered by the king of Israel. He concluded that there was a spy in his camp. He called together his military and attempted to ferret out the traitor, “which one of you is for the king of Israel?” honestly all of them were loyal to him. So, the king of Syria decided to eliminate Elisha. They located him in Dothan. The king of Syria sends in the military, and they entirely surround the place. The servant of Elisha goes out in the morning and is alarmed. He comes back and reports to Elisha who was very much alone with his servant and that servant was frightened to death. Elisha asked God to smite the host of the Syrians with blindness and God did just that. Then Elisha led them all the way into Samaria and told them that he was leading them where Elisha was. When they got to Samaria he turned them over to the king of Samaria. the king wanted to slay them, but Elisha said feed them and said them home. The Syrian king then abandoned his war against Israel.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and New King James Bible.