2 Kings 4:4
Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
Cross References
1 Kings 17:19But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
Isaiah 26:20Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
Mark 5:40And they laughed at Him. After He had put them all outside, He took the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and went in to see the child.
Mark 8:5“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.
John 6:11Then Jesus took the loaves and the fish, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted.
Ephesians 3:20Now to Him who is able to do so much more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
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 →