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2 Paralipomenon 4:7
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Habebat autem Salomon duodecim præfectos super omnem Israël, qui præbebant annonam regi et domui ejus : per singulos enim menses in anno, singuli necessaria ministrabant.
Venit autem illa, et indicavit homini Dei. Et ille: Vade, inquit, vende oleum, et redde creditori tuo: tu autem, et filii tui vivite de reliquo.
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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.
