The Widow’s Olive Oil

4 The wife of a man from the company^(A) of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor^(B) is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

²⁶ If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge,^(A) return it by sunset, ²⁷ because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in?^(B) When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.^(C)