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2 Kings 4:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Kings 4:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Elisha and the Widow’s Oil
4 Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets[a] 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.’ 2 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.’ 3 He said, ‘Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbours, empty vessels and not just a few.
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- 2 Kings 4:1 Heb the sons of the prophets
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