2-kings 4:7
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Then 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.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Then 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.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Then 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.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.
Webster's Revision
Then 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.
World English Bible
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."
English Revised Version (ERV)
Then 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.
Clarke's 2-kings 4:7 Bible Commentary
Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt - He does not inveigh against the cruelty of this creditor, because the law and custom of the country gave him the authority on which he acted; and rather than permit a poor honest widow to have her children sold, or that even a Philistine should suffer loss who had given credit to a genuine Israelite, he would work a miracle to pay a debt which, in the course of providence, it was out of her power to discharge.
Wesley's 2-kings 4:7 Bible Commentary
4:7 Unto her son - To one of them: for she had two, ver. 1 .The oil stayed - To teach us, that we should not waste any of his good creatures; and that God would not work miracles unnecessarily. We are never straiten'd in God, and in his power and bounty, and the riches of his grace. All our straitness is in ourselves. It is our faith that fails, not his promise. Were there more vessels, there is enough in God to fill them, enough for all, enough for each.