So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
How Elisha Helped a Poor Woman to Pay a Debt.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Thy servant my husband is dead: and thou knowest that thy servant feared the Lord: and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen."
And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house?"
And she said, "Thine handmaid hath nothing in the house, save a jar of oil."
Then he said, "Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full."
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her [{138}] and upon her sons; they brought the vessels to her and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me yet a vessel."
And he said to her, "There is not a vessel more." And the oil stayed.
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons upon the rest."
How Elisha Brought to Life a Boy Who Had Died.