Popular Bible Verses from 2 Kings 4

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Elisha answered her, “What am I to do for you? Tell me what you have in the house.” She replied, “This servant of yours has nothing in the house but a jug of oil.”

A certain woman, the widow of one of the guild prophets, cried out to Elisha: “My husband, your servant, is dead. You know that he revered the LORD, yet now his creditor has come to take my two children into servitude.”

He said, “Go out, borrow vessels from all your neighbors—as many empty vessels as you can.

Then come back and close the door on yourself and your children; pour the oil into all the vessels, and as each is filled, set it aside.”

When all the vessels were filled, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” He answered, “There is none left.” And then the oil stopped.

She went and told the man of God, who said, “Go sell the oil to pay off your creditor; with what remains, you and your children can live.” Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son.

So she went out. She closed the door on herself and her children and, as they handed her the vessels, she would pour in oil.

Then he lay upon the child on the bed, placing his mouth upon the child’s mouth, his eyes upon the eyes, and his hands upon the hands. As Elisha stretched himself over the child, the boy’s flesh became warm.