2 Kings 4:5

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So she left him, shut the door behind her and her sons, and they kept bringing vessels to her while she poured the oil.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:15-16 : 15 She went and did according to what Elijah said, and she, Elijah, and her household ate for many days. 16 The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run dry, as the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah had declared.
  • 2 Kgs 5:11 : 11 But Naaman became angry and left, saying, 'I thought he would surely come out to me, stand, call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy.'
  • Luke 1:45 : 45 Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what the Lord has spoken to her.
  • Heb 11:7-8 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverent fear prepared an ark for the salvation of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:1-4
    4 verses
    92%

    1A certain woman, the wife of one of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. Now the creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves."

    2Elisha said to her, "What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" She replied, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of oil."

    3Then he said, "Go, borrow empty vessels from all your neighbors. Get as many as you can. Do not gather too few."

    4Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all these vessels, and as each one is filled, set it aside."

  • 2 Kgs 4:6-10
    5 verses
    87%

    6When all the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." But he replied, "There are no more vessels." Then the oil stopped flowing.

    7She 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 what is left."

    8One day, Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he passed by, he would stop there to eat.

    9She said to her husband, "Look, I know that this is a holy man of God who regularly passes by us."

    10Let’s make a small room on the roof with walls and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then, whenever he comes to us, he can stay there.

  • 2 Kgs 4:21-25
    5 verses
    76%

    21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

    22She called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God and come back."

    23He asked, "Why are you going to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath." She replied, "It is well."

    24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you."

    25So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When Elisha saw her in the distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, there is the Shunammite woman!"

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-38
    3 verses
    75%

    36Elisha called Gehazi and said, 'Call the Shunammite woman.' So he called her, and when she came, he said, 'Take your son.'

    37She came, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

    38Elisha returned to Gilgal, where there was a famine in the land. The company of the prophets was sitting before him, and he said to his servant, 'Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.'

  • 1 Kgs 17:9-17
    9 verses
    75%

    9"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Look, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you."

    10So he arose and went to Zarephath. When he reached the city gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a vessel so I may drink."

    11As she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand as well."

    12But she replied, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked. I only have a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a couple of sticks to go and prepare it for myself and my son so we may eat it and then die."

    13Elijah said to her, "Do not be afraid. Go and do as you have said, but first make a small cake for me from what you have and bring it to me. Then make some for yourself and your son."

    14For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not run out, and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the earth.'

    15She went and did according to what Elijah said, and she, Elijah, and her household ate for many days.

    16The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run dry, as the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah had declared.

    17After this, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick. His illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

  • 2 Kgs 4:15
    72%

    15Elisha said, "Call her." So Gehazi called her, and she came and stood in the doorway.

  • 2 Kgs 4:33
    72%

    33He went in, shut the door behind them both, and prayed to the LORD.

  • Josh 2:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6(But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under stalks of flax she had arranged there.)

    7The pursuers set out along the road toward the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left, the city gate was shut.

  • Gen 24:18-20
    3 verses
    70%

    18"Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

    19After she had given him a drink, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink."

    20So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    70%

    17He called his servant who attended him and said, 'Throw this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.'

  • Matt 25:4
    69%

    4But the wise ones took oil in their flasks along with their lamps.

  • 2 Kgs 4:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the appointed time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.

    18The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    68%

    1Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, take your household, and go live in whatever place you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."

    2So the woman arose and acted according to the word of the man of God. She departed with her household and lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

    3At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

  • Ruth 3:15
    68%

    15And he said, 'Bring me the cloak that you are wearing and hold it out.' So she held it out, and he measured out six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the town.

  • 1 Kgs 17:19
    68%

    19Elijah said to her, "Give me your son." He took the boy from her arms, brought him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

  • 2 Kgs 4:27
    67%

    27When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, 'Leave her alone! She is deeply troubled, but the LORD has hidden the reason from me and has not told me.'

  • Hag 2:16
    67%

    16from that time, when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, only ten were there; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, only twenty were there.

  • Judg 5:25
    67%

    25He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for nobles, she brought him curd.

  • Ruth 3:17
    67%

    17She added, 'He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, “Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.”'

  • 2 Kgs 4:41
    67%

    41Elisha said, 'Get some flour.' He threw it into the pot and said, 'Serve it to the people to eat.' And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

  • Ruth 2:18
    67%

    18She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Ruth also brought out and gave Naomi what she had leftover after she had eaten her fill.

  • Gen 24:45
    67%

    45Before I had finished speaking to myself, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, drew water, and I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'

  • Luke 21:4
    67%

    4For they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she had to live on.