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A widow said a creditor was coming to take her two children as slaves. Elisha told her to borrow empty vessels, shut the door, and pour her oil into them; the oil kept flowing until there were no more vessels. She sold the oil, paid her debt, and lived on the rest with her sons (2 Kings 4:1–7).
1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.
2Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.
3Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.
5So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
6It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn`t another vessel. The oil stayed.
7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.