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 the Lord. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
2. Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?”She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
3. Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from of all your neighbours. Don’t borrow just a few containers.