列王纪下 4:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以利沙說：“你到外面去向你所有的鄰居借空器皿，要盡量多借。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 利 沙 说 ： 你 去 ， 向 你 众 邻 舍 借 空 器 皿 ， 不 要 少 借 ；

Contextual Overview

¹ The wife of a man from the groups of prophets said to Elisha, "Your servant, my husband, is dead. You know he honored the Lord . But now the man he owes money to is coming to take my two boys as his slaves!" ² Elisha answered, "How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" The woman said, "I don't have anything there except a pot of oil." ³ Then Elisha said, "Go and get empty jars from all your neighbors. Don't ask for just a few. ⁴ Then go into your house and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and set the full ones aside." ⁵ So she left Elisha and shut the door behind her and her sons. As they brought the jars to her, she poured out the oil. ⁶ When the jars were all full, she said to her son, "Bring me another jar." But he said, "There are no more jars." Then the oil stopped flowing. ⁷ She went and told Elisha. And the prophet said to her, "Go, sell the oil and pay what you owe. You and your sons can live on what is left."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

empty vessels: 2 Kings 3:16, John 2:7

borrow not a few: Heb. scant not, 2 Kings 13:18, 2 Kings 13:19, Psalms 81:10, John 16:24

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:4 - all the great Luke 5:6 - they enclosed

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Eve said, "With the Lord 's help, I have given birth to a man."

Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Numbers 18:12
"And I give you all the best olive oil and all the best new wine and grain. This is what the Israelites give to me, the Lord , from the first crops they harvest.

1 Kings 17:7
After a while the stream dried up because there was no rain.

Nehemiah 13:6
I was not in Jerusalem when this happened. I had gone back to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year he was king. Finally I asked the king to let me leave.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then he said, go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours,.... For he perceived that she had none:

even empty vessels; which they might more readily lend her:

borrow not a few; but as many as she could get; the prophet, under a divine impulse, was directed to say this to her, foreseeing, by a spirit of prophecy, that a large quantity of oil would be given her.