2 Kings 4:5
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.
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- 1 Kgs 17:15-16 : 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 5:11 : 11 Naaman went away angry. He said,“Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease.
- Luke 1:45 : 45 And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
- Heb 11:7-8 : 7 By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
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- 2 Kgs 4:1-44 verses92%
1Elisha 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.”
2Elisha 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.”
3He said,“Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.
4Go 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.”
- 2 Kgs 4:6-105 verses87%
6When 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.
7She 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.”
8Elisha Gives Life to a Boy One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.
9She said to her husband,“Look, I’m sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.
10Let’s make a small private upper room and furnish it with a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”
- 2 Kgs 4:21-255 verses76%
21She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.
22She 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.”
23He said,“Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said,“Everything’s fine.”
24She saddled the donkey and told her servant,“Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”
25So she went to visit the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi,“Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.
- 2 Kgs 4:36-383 verses75%
36Elisha called to Gehazi and said,“Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so and she came to him. He said to her,“Take your son.”
37She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.
38Elisha 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.”
- 1 Kgs 17:9-179 verses75%
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.”
10So 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.”
11As she went to get it, he called out to her,“Please bring me a piece of bread.”
12She 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.”
13Elijah 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.
14For 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.’”
15She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family.
16The 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.
17After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
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15Elisha told him,“Ask her to come here.” So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.
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33He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the LORD.
- Josh 2:6-72 verses71%
6(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)
7Meanwhile the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.
- Gen 24:18-203 verses70%
18“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.
19When she had done so, she said,“I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”
20She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.
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17He called his personal attendant and said to him,“Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!”
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4But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps.
- 2 Kgs 4:17-182 verses68%
17The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.
- 2 Kgs 8:1-33 verses68%
1Elisha 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.”
2So the woman did as the prophet said. She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
3After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field.
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15Then he said,“Hold out the shawl you are wearing and grip it tightly.” As she held it tightly, he measured out about sixty pounds of barley into the shawl and put it on her shoulders. Then he went into town,
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19He said to her,“Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.
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27But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said,“Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The LORD has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”
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16From 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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25He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for a king, she served him curds.
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17She said,“He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me,‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
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41He 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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18Ruth Returns to Naomi She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.
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45“Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her,‘Please give me a drink.’
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4For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.”