2 Kings 6:13
Good News Translation
"Find out where he is," the king ordered, "and I will capture him." When he was told that Elisha was in Dothan,

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “Go and find where he is; I will send and seize him.” He was told, “He is in Dothan.”

Contemporary English Version
"Find out where he is!" the king ordered. "I'll send soldiers to bring him here." They learned that Elisha was in the town of Dothan and reported it to the king.

New American Bible
He said, “Go, find out where he is, so that I may take him captive.” Informed that Elisha was in Dothan,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and take him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and take him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.

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1 Samuel 23:22,23 Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously inquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen him there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him. . . .

Psalm 10:8-10 He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent. . . .

Psalm 37:12-14,32,33 The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth. . . .

Jeremiah 36:26 And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them.

Matthew 2:4-8 And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born. . . .

John 11:47-53 The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? . . .

Acts 23:12-27 And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul. . . .

12 miles north of Samaria.

Genesis 37:17 And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.

Context
Elisha Captures the Blinded Arameans
12And 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. 13And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and take him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.14Therefore, he sent thither horses, and chariots, and the strength of an army: and they came by night, and beset the city.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:17
And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.

2 Kings 1:9
And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down.

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.

2 Kings 6:14
Therefore, he sent thither horses, and chariots, and the strength of an army: and they came by night, and beset the city.

2 Kings 6:12
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