2 Kings 4:1-7

Evangelical Heritage Version

Elisha Multiplies the Widow’s Oil

4 The wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead. You know that your servant feared the Lord. But now the moneylender is coming to take my two sons as slaves.”

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

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

³ He told her, “Go and ask all your neighbors for jars—empty jars. Don’t ask for only a few. ⁴ Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Then pour oil into all the jars. When each one is full, set it aside.”

⁵ So she went and shut the door to her house behind her and her sons. They brought the jars, and she poured. ⁶ When a jar was filled, she said to her son, “Bring me another jar.”

Finally he said, “There aren’t any more.” Then the oil stopped.

⁷ So she went and told the man of God. He said, “Go and sell the oil and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live off what’s left.”