Then he said, go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
 neighbours
 For he perceived that she had none: 
 even empty vessels;
 which they might more readily lend her: 
 borrow not a few;
 but as many as she could get; the prophet, under a divine impulse, was directed to say this to her, foreseeing, by a spirit of prophecy, that a large quantity of oil would be given her.