Now a certain widow of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."Being very finance-conscious, if not finance-savvy, myself, I wonder what had occurred to put the family into such debt. One would think a prophet of God would not be spending to the point of having to mortgage his own children. The prophets, by all accounts lived very meager lives. Even in their day, they were considered to be poor.
I'm not certain from the relation of the woman, however, whether her husband was a prophet, or the son of a prophet. I suppose it's possible that if it is a son, he did not follow in his father's footsteps. Perhaps that was the problem, that he was not a prophet, and lived a more "normal" life. I still wonder what happened to put the family into such poverty, but it does show how important it is to prepare for loss if you are able.
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