2 Kings 4:6

World English Bible (2000)

It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container." The oil stopped flowing.

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  • Matt 14:20 : 20 They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.
  • Matt 15:37 : 37 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
  • Luke 6:19 : 19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.
  • John 6:12 : 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."
  • Josh 5:12 : 12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
  • 1 Kgs 17:14 : 14 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"
  • 2 Kgs 4:43-44 : 43 His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" But he said, "Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, 'They will eat, and will have some left over.'" 44 So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some of it, according to the word of Yahweh.
  • 2 Kgs 13:19 : 19 The man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria just three times."
  • 2 Chr 6:12-13 : 12 He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands 13 (for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
  • Matt 9:29 : 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you."
  • Matt 13:58 : 58 He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 4:1-5
    5 verses
    87%

    1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

    2 Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil."

    3 Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.

    4 You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full."

    5 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7-9
    3 verses
    83%

    7 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."

    8 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed 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.

    9 She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8-20
    13 verses
    81%

    8 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

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

    10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."

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

    12 She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

    13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

    14 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"

    15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.

    16 The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.

    17 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

    18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"

    19 He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

    20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?"

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    36 He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son."

    37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.

    38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

  • 41 But he said, "Then bring meal." He cast it into the pot; and he said, "Pour out for the people, that they may eat." There was no harm in the pot.

  • 30 The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    69%

    1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

    2 The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.

    3 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

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    14 He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."

    15 He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door.

    16 He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."

    17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

    18 When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.

  • 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

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

    22 She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again."

    23 He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "It's alright."

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    23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, "Behold, your son lives."

    24 The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth."

  • 28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

  • 2 Kgs 8:5-6
    2 verses
    67%

    5 It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."

    6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."

  • 27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

  • 20 He said, "Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it." They brought it to him.

  • 1 Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, "Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

  • 25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.

  • 24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

  • 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

  • 35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.