2 Kings 4:5

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 17:15-16 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 5:11 : 11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.'
  • Luke 1:45 : 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"
  • Heb 11:7-8 : 7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 4:1-4
    4 verses
    92%

    1Now 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."

    2Elisha 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."

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

    4You 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."

  • 2 Kgs 4:6-10
    5 verses
    87%

    6It 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.

    7Then 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."

    8It 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.

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

    10Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."

  • 2 Kgs 4:21-25
    5 verses
    76%

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

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

    24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don't slow down for me, unless I ask you to."

    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, there is the Shunammite.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-38
    3 verses
    75%

    36He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had 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 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."

  • 1 Kgs 17:9-17
    9 verses
    75%

    9"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay 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. 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 out to me, and afterward make some 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 severe, that there was no breath left in him.

  • 2 Kgs 4:15
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:33
    72%

    33He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

  • Josh 2:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.

    7The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

  • Gen 24:18-20
    3 verses
    70%

    18She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.

    19When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."

    20She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    70%

    17Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her."

  • Matt 25:4
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    68%

    1Now 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."

    2The 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.

    3It 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.

  • Ruth 3:15
    68%

    15He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into the city.

  • 1 Kgs 17:19
    68%

    19He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 4:27
    67%

    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, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

  • Hag 2:16
    67%

    16Through 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.

  • Judg 5:25
    67%

    25He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

  • Ruth 3:17
    67%

    17She said, "He gave me these six [measures] of barley; for he said, 'Don't go empty to your mother-in-law.'"

  • 2 Kgs 4:41
    67%

    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.

  • Ruth 2:18
    67%

    18She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.

  • Gen 24:45
    67%

    45Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'

  • Luke 21:4
    67%

    4for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."