2 Kings 4:1–7

The Widow’s Oil

¹Now a certain woman of the wives of ^athe sons of the prophets cried out to ¹Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared Yahweh; and ^bthe creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

²And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your servant-woman has nothing in the house except ^aa jar of oil.”

³Then he said, “Go, ask for vessels for yourself, from those outside, from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few.

⁴“And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels, and you shall set aside what is full.”

⁵So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured.

⁶Now it happened that when ^athe vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not one vessel more.” And the oil stopped.

⁷Then she came and told ^athe man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”