February 19, 2019 - Day 317 - 2 Kings 4
I am writing from my hotel in Berkeley, CA.
2 Kings 4:
This chapter opens with a very fascinating story.
A widow has debts, and a creditor is coming to take her boys as slaves; but all she has is a small jar of olive oil. Elisha tells her to ask her neighbors for empty jars, as many as she can find. Once she does this, she's supposed to fill the jars. How do you fill multiple jars with olive oil, when you only have a little?
She filled every jar, and was able to sell the jars to pay the debt; and had more leftover.
Elisha then comes upon a woman who told him to stay for a meal when he was in town. Her and her husband were nice to him, and he was grateful. He asks what he can do for them, so he waves a magic wand and she was pregnant a gave birth to a boy the next year. She really wanted a child.
Anyway, this kid dies but Elisha brings him back to life.
Next, there's a famine so Elisha makes a pot of stew for some prophets. They were about to eat it but realized there was "death in the pot." We are not told what it means. He puts some flour in the pot and it is fine now. So apparently flour was the neutralizer for "death." Weird.
This chapter closes with Elisha feeding one hundred men with twenty loaves of bread. They all ate, and then had some left over.
These miracles by Elisha are intriguing.
2 Kings 4:
This chapter opens with a very fascinating story.
A widow has debts, and a creditor is coming to take her boys as slaves; but all she has is a small jar of olive oil. Elisha tells her to ask her neighbors for empty jars, as many as she can find. Once she does this, she's supposed to fill the jars. How do you fill multiple jars with olive oil, when you only have a little?
She filled every jar, and was able to sell the jars to pay the debt; and had more leftover.
Elisha then comes upon a woman who told him to stay for a meal when he was in town. Her and her husband were nice to him, and he was grateful. He asks what he can do for them, so he waves a magic wand and she was pregnant a gave birth to a boy the next year. She really wanted a child.
Anyway, this kid dies but Elisha brings him back to life.
Next, there's a famine so Elisha makes a pot of stew for some prophets. They were about to eat it but realized there was "death in the pot." We are not told what it means. He puts some flour in the pot and it is fine now. So apparently flour was the neutralizer for "death." Weird.
This chapter closes with Elisha feeding one hundred men with twenty loaves of bread. They all ate, and then had some left over.
These miracles by Elisha are intriguing.
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