2 Kings 4:1-7 (New Revised Standard)
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Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets a cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves."
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Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She answered, "Your servant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil."
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He said, "Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not just a few.
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Then go in, and shut the door behind you and your children, and start pouring into all these vessels; when each is full, set it aside."
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So she left him and shut the door behind her and her children; they kept bringing vessels to her, and she kept pouring.
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When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." But he said to her, "There are no more." Then the oil stopped flowing.
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She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your children can live on the rest."
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes
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2 Kings 4:1 - Heb [the sons of the prophets]