2 Kings 4:1-7 - Elisha Answers A Widow's Request

1 And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

2 And Elisha will say to her, What shall I do for thee? announce to me what is to thee in the house. And she will say, Not anything to thy servant in the house but a flask of oil.

3 And he will say, Go ask for thyself vessels from without from all thine dwelling near; empty vessels; thou shalt not be little. 4 And come in and shut the door after thee and after thy sons, and thou shalt pour into all these vessels, and the full thou shalt remove. 5 And she will go from him and shut the door after her and after her sons, they bringing near to her, and she pouring out 6 And it will be as the vessels being full, and she will say to her son, Bring to me yet a vessel. And he will say. Not a vessel more. And, the oil will stand.

7 And she will go and announce to the man of God, and he will say, Go sell the oil and requite thy creditor, and thou shalt live with thy sons by the rest