2 Reis 4

1 The wife of one of the sons of the prophets appealed to Elisha, "My husband, your servant, is dead, and you know that he honored the Lord. But now to pay his debts his creditor is coming to take my two sons as his slaves!"

2 "What can I do to help you?" asked Elisha. "Tell me, what do you have in your house?"

"I, your servant, don’t have anything in my house except a jar of olive oil," she replied.

3 "Go and borrow empty jars from your neighbors—as many as possible, not just a few," Elisha told her. 4 "Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and start pouring olive oil into all these jars, placing the full jars to one side."

5 She left Elisha, went home, and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept on pouring. 6 When all the jars were full, she told her son, "Bring me another one." But he replied, "There aren’t any jars left." Then the olive oil stopped flowing.

7 She went and told the man of God what had happened, and he said, "Go and sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on what’s left."