3Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.


In Context

1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take to him my two sons to be slaves.

2 And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me, what have you in the house? And she said, Your handmaid has not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.

3 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

4 And when you are come in, you shall shut the door on you and on your sons, and shall pour out into all those vessels, and you shall set aside that which is full.

5 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.

2 Kings 4:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:3Elisha said, "Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don't ask for just a few.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:3Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:3And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:3Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3And he said, Go, borrow for thyself vessels abroad from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; let it not be few;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:3Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3Then he said, |Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3And he saith, 'Go, ask for thee vessels from without, from all thy neighbours — empty vessels — let them not be few;