7She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left."


In Context

4 Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side."

5 She left him and afterward shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring.

6 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another one." But he replied, "There is not a jar left." Then the oil stopped flowing.

7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left."

8 One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat.

9 She said to her husband, "I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God.

2nd Kings 4:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:7And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Then 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 of the rest.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7And 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 on the rest.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Then 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 of the rest.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children on the remainder.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, |Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7And she cometh and declareth to the man of God, and he saith, 'Go, sell the oil, and repay thy loan; and thou and thy sons do live of the rest.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your children of the rest.