2 Kings 4:3

Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

In Context

2Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.

4Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.

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Cross References

2 Kings 3:16And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.

Psalms 81:10\81:9\There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

John 2:7Jesus said to the servants, Make the pots full of water. And they made them full to the top.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 4:2-8

The Increase of the Widow's Oil. ( b. c. 894.) 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord : and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. 2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. 3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad… Read the whole commentary →

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