2Elisha said to her, |What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?| She said, |Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.|


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. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.|

2 Elisha said to her, |What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?| She said, |Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.|

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

4 You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full.|

2 Kings 4:2 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Elisha replied to her, "How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" "Your servant has nothing there at all," she said, "except a little oil."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:2And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:2And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me to do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I thy handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:2And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid hath not anything in the house, save a pot of oil.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid has not anything at all in the house but a pot of oil.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:2And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2And Elisha saith unto her, 'What do I do for thee? declare to me, what hast thou in the house?' and she saith, 'Thy maid-servant hath nothing in the house except a pot of oil.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:2And 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.