2 Kings 4:2-12

2 Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.
3 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4 You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.
5 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
6 It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel. The oil stayed.
7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.
8 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
9 She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.
10 Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.
11 It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay there.
12 He said to Gechazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.

2 Kings 4:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 4

This chapter treats of the miracles of Elisha, of his multiplying a poor widow's pot of oil for the payment of her husband's debts, 2Ki 4:1-7 of obtaining a son for a Shunamitish woman, who had been very hospitable to him, 2Ki 4:8-17, of his raising up her son to life when dead, 2Ki 4:18-37, of his curing the deadly pottage made of wild gourds, 2Ki 4:38-41, and of his feeding one hundred men with twenty barley loaves, 2Ki 4:42-44.

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