The ax head - This is meant literally, as noted in the margin of some Bibles. The Jews used iron for the heads of axes from a very early dat…

But. —In Hebrew, and it came to pass, the one was felling the beam. Not necessarily “the one” of 2 Kings 6:3,…

These young men were too poor to buy their own tools, so they asked for a kind loan of an axe-head to use in the Lord's service. It was very natura…

But as one was felling a beam
Cutting down a tree, or a branch of it:

the axe head fell into the …

There is a certain pleasantness in the conversation of God's servants, which can make those who listen to them forget the pain and weariness of lab…