1. A certain woman, the widow of one of the guild prophets, cried out to Elisha: “My husband, your servant, is dead. You know that he revered the Lord, yet now his creditor has come to take my two children into servitude.”
2. Elisha answered her, “What am I to do for you? Tell me what you have in the house.” She replied, “This servant of yours has nothing in the house but a jug of oil.”
3. He said, “Go out, borrow vessels from all your neighbors—as many empty vessels as you can.
4. Then come back and close the door on yourself and your children; pour the oil into all the vessels, and as each is filled, set it aside.”
5. So she went out. She closed the door on herself and her children and, as they handed her the vessels, she would pour in oil.
6. When all the vessels were filled, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” He answered, “There is none left.” And then the oil stopped.
7. She went and told the man of God, who said, “Go sell the oil to pay off your creditor; with what remains, you and your children can live.”
8. One day Elisha came to Shunem, where there was a woman of influence, who pressed him to dine with her. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he would stop there to dine.
9. So she said to her husband, “I know that he is a holy man of God. Since he visits us often,