World English Bible
2 Kings 4:6
“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.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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