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The wife of one of the guild prophets complained to Elisha. "Your servant my husband died," she said, "and you know that he feared ADONAI. Now a creditor has come to take my two children as his slaves."
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Elisha asked her, "What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She answered, "Your servant has nothing in the house but a flask of oil."
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Then he said, "Go, and borrow containers from all your neighbors, empty containers; and don't borrow just a few!
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Then go in; shut the door, with you and your sons inside; and pour oil into all those containers; and as they are filled, put them aside."
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So she left him and shut the door on herself and her sons. They brought her the containers while she poured.
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When the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another container"; but he answered, "There isn't another container." 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 debt; then you and your sons can live on what's left."
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One day Elisha visited Shunem, and a well-to-do woman living there pressed him to stay and eat a meal. After this, whenever he came through, he stopped there for a meal.
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She said to her husband, "I can see that this is a holy man of God who keeps stopping at our place.
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Please, let's build him a little room on the roof. We'll put a bed and a table in it for him, and a stool and a candlestick. Then, whenever he comes to visit us, he can stay there."
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One day Elisha came to visit there, and he went into the upper room to lie down.