2 Kings 4:1
ContextElisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons
4:1 Now a wife of one of the prophets 1 appealed 2 to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. 3 Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”
2 Kings 4:7
Context4:7 She went and told the prophet. 4 He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”
1 tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”
2 tn Or “cried out.”
3 tn Heb “your servant feared the
4 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 16, 22, 25, 27 [twice]).