Teks -- 2 Kings 4:2 (NET)

4:2 Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 2Ki 4:2 - What shall I

How shall I relieve thee, who am myself poor?

JFB: 2Ki 4:2-4 - a pot

Or cruet of oil. This comprising her whole stock of domestic utensils, he directs her to borrow empty vessels not a few; then, secluding herself with her children, [the widow] was to pour oil from her cruse into the borrowed vessels, and, selling the oil, discharge the debt, and then maintain herself and family with the remainder.

Clarke: 2Ki 4:2 - Save a pot of oil

Save a pot of oil - Oil was used as aliment, for anointing the body after bathing, and to anoint the dead. Some think that this pot of oil was what this widow had kept for her burial: see Mat 26:12.

TSK: 2Ki 4:2 - What shall I // save a pot of oil

What shall I : 2Ki 2:9, 2Ki 6:26, 2Ki 6:27; Mat 15:34; Joh 6:5-7; Act 3:6; 2Co 6:10

save a pot of oil : 1Ki 17:12; Jam 2:5

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Ki 4:2 - What shall I do for thee? // What hast thou in the house // Save a pot of oil

What shall I do for thee? how shall I relieve thee, who am myself poor?

What hast thou in the house which may contribute to the payment of thy debts, or, at least, to the satisfaction of thy creditors, who may perchance deal favourably with thee through my persuasion?

Save a pot of oil which was useful for divers things about the service of God, and health, or delight, or ornament, and other uses of men. See Jud 9:9 .

Haydock: 2Ki 4:2 - Anoint me

Anoint me, for delicacy or health, Matthew vi. 17. (Menochius) ---

To abstain from this unction, in the East, was a great mortification, 2 Kings xiv. 2., and Deuteronomy xxviii. 40. Sanctius supposes, that the woman intended the oil to anoint her body for interment, Matthew xxvi. 12. Hebrew asuc, occurs no where else, and my signify a pot, or "skin of oil." The woman had nothing else. The original does not say what she intended to do with it. (Calmet) ---

She might use it for food: (3 Kings xvii. 12.) but the Septuagint agree with the Vulgate. (Haydock)

Gill: 2Ki 4:2 - And Elisha said unto her, what shall I do for thee // tell me what thou hast in thy house // and she said, thine handmaid hath not anything in the house, save a pot of oil

And Elisha said unto her, what shall I do for thee?.... Or can I do, being poor himself, and unable to relieve her out of his substance, and not knowing where to get anything for her; and so what could she expect from him? signifying, that he pitied her case, but all that he could do was to give her his best advice, and pray for her:

tell me what thou hast in thy house? that she could part with and dispose of, in order to pay her debt; and satisfy her creditor:

and she said, thine handmaid hath not anything in the house, save a pot of oil; that is, nothing of any value; she might have some things, some sort of household goods, though perhaps she had parted with most of them in her poverty; this was the most valuable thing she had.