2 Kings 4:3
Good News Translation
"Go to your neighbors and borrow as many empty jars as you can," Elisha told her.

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not just a few.

Contemporary English Version
Elisha told her, "Ask your neighbors for their empty jars. And after you've borrowed as many as you can,

New American Bible
He said, “Go out, borrow vessels from all your neighbors—as many empty vessels as you can.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few.

empty vessels

2 Kings 3:16 Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.

John 2:7 Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

borrow not a few [heb] scant not

2 Kings 13:18,19 And he said: Take the arrows. And when he had taken them, he said to him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three times, and stood still. . . .

Psalm 81:10 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

John 16:24 Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.

Context
The Widow's Oil
2And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I, thy handmaid, have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me. 3And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few.4And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, take them away.…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:2
And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I, thy handmaid, have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.

2 Kings 4:4
And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, take them away.

2 Kings 4:2
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