2 Kings 4:1-7

Modern English Version

The Widow’s Olive Oil

4 Now one of the wives of the sons of the prophets 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 sons as slaves.”

² Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?”

She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”

³ Then he said, “Go, ask for vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not just a few. ⁴ Then go in, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour the oil into all these vessels. When each is full, set it aside.”

⁵ So she left him and shut the door behind her and her sons, and they kept bringing vessels to her, and she kept pouring. ⁶ When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.”

But he said to her, “There is not another vessel.” And the oil ceased.

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