Elisha helped a poor widow

4 One day the widow of one of Yahweh’s prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, “My husband, who worked with you, is dead. You know that he revered Yahweh very much. But now a man to whom he owed a lot of money has come to me. And because I cannot pay back the money, he is threatening to take away my two sons to be his slaves as payment for what I owe him!”

2 Elisha replied, “What can I do to help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”

She replied, “We have only a container of olive oil; we have nothing else.”

3 Elisha said, “Go to your neighbors and borrow from them as many empty jars as you can. 4 Then take the jars into your house with your sons. Shut the door. Then pour olive oil from your container into the other jars. When each jar is full, set it aside and fill another jar. Keep doing that until all the jars are full.”

5 So she did what Elisha told her to do. Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she kept filling them. 6 Soon all the jars were full. So she said to one of her sons, “Bring me another jar!” But he replied, “There are no more jars!” And then the olive oil stopped flowing.

7 When she told Elijah what had happened, he said to her, “Now sell the jars of oil. And with the money you get, pay what you owe, and there will be enough extra money to keep buying food for yourself and your sons.” So she did that.