The Widow’s Oil

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

The Death in the Stew

³⁸ Now Elisha returned to ^(A)Gilgal, and there was ^(B)a famine in the land. ^[a]As ^(C)the sons of the prophets ^(D)were sitting before him, he said to his young man, “^(E)Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

²² And he said, “^(A)All is at peace. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from ^(B)the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and ^(C)two changes of clothes.’”