2 Kings 4:3
He said,“Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.
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- 2 Kgs 3:16 : 16 and he said,“This is what the LORD has said,‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’
- 2 Kgs 13:18-19 : 18 Then Elisha said,“Take the arrows,” and he did so. He told the king of Israel,“Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped. 19 The prophet got angry at him and said,“If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”
- Ps 81:10 : 10 I am the LORD, your God, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!’
- John 2:7 : 7 Jesus told the servants,“Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.
- John 16:24 : 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.
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- 2 Kgs 4:4-74 verses85%
4 Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; set aside each one when you have filled it.”
5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.
6 When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons,“Bring me another container.” But he answered her,“There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.
7 She went and told the prophet. He said,“Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”
- 2 Kgs 4:1-22 verses84%
1 Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying,“Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”
2 Elisha said to her,“What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered,“Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”
- 2 Kgs 4:38-392 verses72%
38 Elisha Makes a Meal Edible Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant,“Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets.”
39 Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.
- 1 Kgs 17:8-169 verses72%
8 The LORD’s message came to him,
9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.”
10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her,“Please give me a little water in a cup, so I can take a drink.”
11 As she went to get it, he called out to her,“Please bring me a piece of bread.”
12 She said,“As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”
13 Elijah said to her,“Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make me a small cake and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.
14 For this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the LORD makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”
15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family.
16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Elijah.
- 2 Kgs 6:1-22 verses71%
1 Elisha Makes an Ax Head Float Some of the prophets said to Elisha,“Look, the place where we meet with you is too cramped for us.
2 Let’s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.” He said,“Go.”
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20 Elisha said,“Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it.
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1 Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life,“You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the LORD has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
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11 houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,
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41 He said,“Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said,“Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
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26 Elisha replied,“I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you. This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants.
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16 From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
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1 An Object Lesson from a Broken Clay Jar The LORD told Jeremiah,“Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.
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16 and he said,“This is what the LORD has said,‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’
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1 Jehu Becomes King Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild and told him,“Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
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19 Deliver to the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.
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12 The LORD will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.
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8 Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.
- Deut 24:10-112 verses69%
10 When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.
11 You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.
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6 But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.’”
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2 Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold.”
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7 Jesus told the servants,“Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.
- 2 Kgs 4:22-232 verses68%
22 She called to her husband,“Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”
23 He said,“Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said,“Everything’s fine.”
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15 So they tracked them as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. The scouts went back and told the king.
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43 But his attendant said,“How can I feed a hundred men with this?” He replied,“Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the LORD has said,‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
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14 Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
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4 But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps.
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9 ‘No,’ they replied.‘There won’t be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
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22 Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters– thus you will plunder Egypt!”
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1 Elisha replied,“Listen to the LORD’s message. This is what the LORD has said,‘About this time tomorrow a seah of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”
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43 He told his servant,“Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported,“There is nothing.” Seven times Elijah sent him to look.
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11 Jehoshaphat asked,“Is there no prophet of the LORD here that we might seek the LORD’s direction?” One of the servants of the king of Israel answered,“Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah’s servant.”
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10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all.
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9 Take note of the field where the men are harvesting and follow behind with the female workers. I will tell the men to leave you alone. When you are thirsty, you may go to the water jars and drink some of the water the servants draw.”
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5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head dropped into the water. He shouted,“Oh no, my master! It was borrowed!”