1. Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha saying, “Your servant my husband is dead—you know that your servant feared Adonai. Now the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
2. “What should I do for you?” Elisha asked her. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She replied, “Your handmaid has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”
3. Then he said, “Go borrow for yourself vessels from all your neighbors—empty jars—not just a few.
4. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and behind your sons, and pour into all those vessels, setting aside what is full.”
5. So she left him and shut the door behind her and behind her sons. They kept bringing the vessels to her and she kept pouring.
6. When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” But he said to her, “There isn’t another vessel.” So the oil stopped.
7. Then she came and told the man of God. So he said, “Go sell the oil and pay your debt, then you and your sons can live on the rest.”
8. One day when Elisha passed through Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who persuaded him to eat some food. And so it was, whenever he passed through, he would stop for a meal.
9. Then she said to her husband, “Behold now, I realize that this man who often passes through is a holy man of God.
10. Please, let’s make a little walled room on the roof, and let’s put there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand for him. Then whenever he comes to us, he can stay there.”
11. One day he came there, and retired to the upper chamber and lay down there.