2 Kings 4:3
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
In context
1 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
2 “How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
3 “Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
4 Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”
5 So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.
2 Kings 4:3 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
- KJV King James Version
- Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
- WEB World English Bible
- Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And he saith, 'Go, ask for thee vessels from without, from all thy neighbours — empty vessels — let [them] not be few;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he said, Go, borrow for thyself vessels abroad from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; let it not be few;
- WBS Webster Bible
- Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.