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The wife of a man from the groups of prophets said to Elisha, "Your servant, my husband, is dead. You know he honored the Lord. But now the man he owes money to is coming to take my two boys as his slaves!"
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Elisha answered, "How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" The woman said, "I don't have anything there except a pot of oil."
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Then Elisha said, "Go and get empty jars from all your neighbors. Don't ask for just a few.
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Then go into your house and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and set the full ones aside."
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So she left Elisha and shut the door behind her and her sons. As they brought the jars to her, she poured out the oil.
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When the jars were all full, she said to her son, "Bring me another jar." But he said, "There are no more jars." Then the oil stopped flowing.
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She went and told Elisha. And the prophet said to her, "Go, sell the oil and pay what you owe. You and your sons can live on what is left."
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One day Elisha went to Shunem, where an important woman lived. She begged Elisha to stay and eat. So every time Elisha passed by, he stopped there to eat.
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The woman said to her husband, "I know that this is a holy man of God who passes by our house all the time.
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Let's make a small room on the roofn and put a bed in the room for him. We can put a table, a chair, and a lampstand there. Then when he comes by, he can stay there."