2 Kings 4:3-6
4:3 He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. 1 Get as many as you can. 2
4:4 Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; 3 set aside each one when you have filled it.”
4:5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.
4:6 When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, 4 “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.
2 Kings 4:16-17
4:16 He said, “About this time next year 5 you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”
4:17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
1 tn Heb “Go, ask for containers from outside, from all your neighbors, empty containers.”
2 tn Heb “Do not borrow just a few.”
3 tn Heb “all these vessels.”
4 tn Heb “to her son.”
5 tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.