2 Kgs 6:6

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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.

2Kgs 2:21; 2Kgs 4:41; Exod 15:25; Mark 7:33; Mark 7:34; Mark 8:23-25; John 9:6; John 9:7

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.