Bible Verses About Oil: Commerce in

The wife of one of the guild prophets complained to Elisha. "Your servant my husband died," she said, "and you know that he feared ADONAI. Now a creditor has come to take my two children as his slaves."

Elisha asked her, "What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She answered, "Your servant has nothing in the house but a flask of oil."

Then he said, "Go, and borrow containers from all your neighbors, empty containers; and don't borrow just a few!

Then go in; shut the door, with you and your sons inside; and pour oil into all those containers; and as they are filled, put them aside."

So she left him and shut the door on herself and her sons. They brought her the containers while she poured.

When the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another container"; but he answered, "There isn't another container." Then the oil stopped flowing.

She came and told the man of God; and he said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; then you and your sons can live on what's left."