Popular Bible Verses from 2 King 4

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

Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves.”

He said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels—and not just a few.

Then go in, shut the door behind you and your children, and start pouring into all these vessels; when each is full, set it aside.”

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

She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your children can live on the rest.”

So she left him and shut the door behind her and her children; they kept bringing vessels to her, and she kept pouring.

Then he got up on the bed and lay upon the child, putting his mouth upon his mouth, his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands, and while he lay bent over him, the flesh of the child became warm.