2 Kings 4:3
World English Bible (WEB)
Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
In context
1 Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
2 Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
3 Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
4 Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”
5 So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.
2 Kings 4:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
- KJV King James Version
- Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
- 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.