2 Kings 6:10
So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
Note Literally Not once and not twice
And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.
And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- sent to the place
- To see if it were so. But the Vulgate renders, {misit rex Israel ad locum, et præoccupavit eum;} "the king of Israel sent to the place, and pre-occupied it;" which is very likely, though not expressed in the Hebrew text.
- 2 Kings 5:14; Exodus 9:20, 21; 1 Kings 20:15; Proverbs 27:12; Matthew 24:15–17
- warned him
- Ezekiel 3:18–21; Matthew 2:12; Matthew 3:7; Hebrews 11:7
- saved
- 2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 13:14; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Amos 7:1–6; Acts 27:24