2 Kings 4
In a previous post when Elijah is taken into heaven, Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah's spirit from God.
This chapter is some of his acts as a prophet - some of which echo Elijah.
First off a widow of one of the prophets is facing debt problems and likely to lose her sons to pay off the debt goes to see Elisha.
Elisha asks what she has to sell in the house, but there is nothing but a small jar of olive oil. Elisha told her to ask her neighbours for empty jars - not just a few of them either.
the woman pours olive oil from her jar into jar after jar, and it is only empty when she is told that there is not another jar.
The widow was then able to sell the oil to pay off the debt and had some left over to help her restart her life.
Elisha used to stay at the home of a Shunammite - Elisha asked if she wanted him to help her and her husband, the only thing they really want is a child, Elisha said that next year she would be pregnant,
A son is born to her, but he died and Elisha bought him back to life
Elisha also managed to eliminate poison from a pot of stew by adding flour and feed a hundred people using nothing more than 20 loaves of barley bread with some left over.
In a previous post when Elijah is taken into heaven, Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah's spirit from God.
This chapter is some of his acts as a prophet - some of which echo Elijah.
First off a widow of one of the prophets is facing debt problems and likely to lose her sons to pay off the debt goes to see Elisha.
Elisha asks what she has to sell in the house, but there is nothing but a small jar of olive oil. Elisha told her to ask her neighbours for empty jars - not just a few of them either.
the woman pours olive oil from her jar into jar after jar, and it is only empty when she is told that there is not another jar.
The widow was then able to sell the oil to pay off the debt and had some left over to help her restart her life.
Elisha used to stay at the home of a Shunammite - Elisha asked if she wanted him to help her and her husband, the only thing they really want is a child, Elisha said that next year she would be pregnant,
A son is born to her, but he died and Elisha bought him back to life
Elisha also managed to eliminate poison from a pot of stew by adding flour and feed a hundred people using nothing more than 20 loaves of barley bread with some left over.
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