Popular Bible Verses from 2 Kings 4

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So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”

Now a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Then he said, “Go, borrow containers elsewhere for yourself, empty containers from all your neighbors—do not get too few.

Then you shall come in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour into all these containers; and you shall set aside what is full.”

When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” But he said to her, “There are no more containers.” Then the oil stopped.

So she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”

So she left him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they began bringing the containers to her, and she poured the oil.

Then he got up on the bed and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, his hands on his hands, and he bent down on him; and the flesh of the child became warm.