2 Kings 4:3-13

3 Then Elisha said, "Go and get empty jars from all your neighbors. Don't ask for just a few.
4 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."
5 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.
6 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.
7 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."
8 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.
9 The woman said to her husband, "I know that this is a holy man of God who passes by our house all the time.
10 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."
11 One day Elisha came to the woman's house. After he went to his room and rested,
12 he said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite woman." When the servant had called her, she stood in front of him.
13 Elisha had told his servant, "Now say to her, 'You have gone to all this trouble for us. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak to the king or the commander of the army for you?'" She answered, "I live among my own people."

2 Kings 4:3-13 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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