Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.” Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.” Then he said, “Go, borrow containers from of all your […]
⛓ Read 2 Kings 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Elisha multiplies a widow's small jar of oil to overflowing abundance. The Elisha-cycle motif of a prophet multiplying scarce food/provision reinforces the dominant 2 Kings 4:42-44 allusion. Contested, recurrence within the same prophetic cycle.
Low confidenceElisha's multiplication of the widow's oil, where a small supply expands to abundance with a surplus, is a sibling miracle to the loaf-multiplication and reinforces the Elisha-as-feeder/provider background.
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