Passage

2 Kings 4

• Doctrine

  Elisha's Miraculous Ministry

  Elisha's miracles (multiplying oil, raising the Shunammite's son, feeding a hundred men) demonstrate God's compassionate power through his prophet, not the prophet's own independent power.

  2KI.4.1-44

• Glossary Term

  Oil

  The widow's multiplying oil (2 Kings 4:1-7); standard term.

  2KI.4.1-44

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  Elisha and Isaiah must be clearly distinguished from folk healers or fortune-tellers.

  2KI.4.1-44