Elisa helps a poor widow, 1643 print A widow kneels for Elisa and asks him for his help. After the death of her husband, the woman was left with a debt, so that the creditor wanted to make her two sons a slave. To prevent that, Elisa performed a miracle. On his sign, the widow was able to fill infinitely many vessels with oil with a jug. By selling the oil, she was able to pay off her debt and keep her sons. In the background, barrels are filled with oil. Under the show a reference in Latin to the Bible text in 2 Kon. 4: 1. This print is part of an album. Amsterdam paper engraving the widow's

Elisa helps a poor widow, 1643 print A widow kneels for Elisa and asks him for his help. After the death of her husband, the woman was left with a debt, so that the creditor wanted to make her two sons a slave. To prevent that, Elisa performed a miracle. On his sign, the widow was able to fill infinitely many vessels with oil with a jug. By selling the oil, she was able to pay off her debt and keep her sons. In the background, barrels are filled with oil. Under the show a reference in Latin to the Bible text in 2 Kon. 4: 1. This print is part of an album. Amsterdam paper engraving the widow's oil: the little oil a woman has in store increases so that she and her son are able to fill many borrowed jars with it (2 Kings 4:1-7)

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