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.|


In Context

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.|

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

6 It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, |Bring me another container.| He said to her, |There isn't another container.| The oil stopped flowing.

7 Then 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.|

8 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

9 She said to her husband, |See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.

2 Kings 4:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:7She 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."

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 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.