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2 Kings 4:4-9 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

4. Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these containers. Set the full ones to one side.”

5. So she left.After she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing her containers, and she kept pouring.

6. When they were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”But he replied, “There aren’t any more.” Then the oil stopped.

7. She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go sell the oil and pay your debt; you and your sons can live on the rest.”

8. One day Elisha went to Shunem. A prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.

9. Then she said to her husband, “I know that the one who often passes by here is a holy man of God,

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