When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”
He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Kings 4:6 in context
2 Kings 4:3–9
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Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
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Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”
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So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.
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When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”
He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
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Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
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One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
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She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.
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