2 Kings 4:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 17:12 : 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: and, 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.
  • 2 Kgs 2:9 : 9 It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you. Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.
  • 2 Kgs 6:26-27 : 26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
  • Matt 15:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
  • John 6:5-7 : 5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" 6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."
  • Acts 3:6 : 6 But Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!"
  • 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 4:1
    84%

    1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.

  • 2 Kgs 4:3-9
    7 verses
    84%

    3Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

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

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

    6It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel. The oil stayed.

    7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.

    8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

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

  • 1 Kgs 17:9-18
    10 verses
    77%

    9Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.

    10So 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.

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

    12She 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: and, 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.

    13Elijah 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 forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.

    14For 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.

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

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

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

    18She 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!

  • 2 Kgs 4:12-16
    5 verses
    75%

    12He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.

    13He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.

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

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-38
    3 verses
    74%

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

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

    38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth 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.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-6
    6 verses
    73%

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

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

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

    4Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.

    5It 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.

    6When 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.

  • 2 Kgs 4:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22She 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.

    23He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.

  • 2 Kgs 4:41
    72%

    41But 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.

  • 2 Kgs 2:20
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:11
    71%

    11But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him? One of the king of Israel's servants answered, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.

  • 2 Sam 14:12
    71%

    12Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He said, Say on.

  • 2 Kgs 9:1
    71%

    1Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

  • 2 Kgs 4:25-27
    3 verses
    70%

    25So 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, yonder is the Shunammite:

    26please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? She answered, It is well.

    27When 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, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.

  • 2 Kgs 7:1
    70%

    1Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

  • 2 Sam 14:15
    69%

    15Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

  • 2 Kgs 5:4
    69%

    4One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden who is of the land of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 14:5
    69%

    5The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

  • 2 Kgs 6:12
    69%

    12One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    69%

    24The 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.

  • 2 Kgs 6:27
    69%

    27He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?

  • 2 Kgs 5:26
    69%

    26He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?