2 Rois 4:7

La Bible Ostervald

Alors elle vint le rapporter à l'homme de Dieu, qui lui dit: Va, vends l'huile, et paie ta dette; et, toi et tes fils, vous vivrez du reste.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et elle s'en vint et le raconta à l'homme de Dieu, et il dit: Va, vends l'huile, et paye ta dette; et vous vivrez, toi et tes fils, de ce qui restera.

Louis Segond (1910)
Elle alla le rapporter à l'homme de Dieu, et il dit: Va vendre l'huile, et paie ta dette; et tu vivras, toi et tes fils, de ce qui restera.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Puis elle s'en vint, et le raconta à l'homme de Dieu, qui lui dit : Va, vends l'huile, et paye ta dette; et vous vivrez, toi et tes fils, de ce qu'il y aura de reste.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pay: Psalms 37:21, Romans 12:17, Philippians 4:8, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:10, 1 Thessalonians 4:12, 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12

debt: or, creditor

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:25 - General 2 Kings 6:5 - for it was borrowed 2 Kings 6:7 - Take it up 2 Peter 1:21 - in old time

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then she came and told the man of God,.... Elisha the prophet, what had been done, what a quantity of oil she had, and advised with him what was to be done with it:

and he said, go, sell thy oil, and pay thy debt; what was thus miraculously produced was no doubt very good and excellent, and would fetch a good price; and she is therefore bid to turn it into money, and pay her debts with it; she was not to keep it all for her own use, and indulge to luxury with it, but first pay her just debt, as everyone ought to do that is able:

and live thou and thy children of the rest; so that it seems there was enough to pay her debt with it, rid her of her troubles, and somewhat remaining for the support of herself and children.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 4:7. 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.