2 Kings 4:1-11 She was desperate. Known in her small community as the widow, she was not allowed to hide her loss. The fact that she was also a single mother of two boys only made matters worse. But it was the famine that left her cupboards empty. Her husband had died, leaving her to face the creditors. She knew she couldn’t pay them. That meant the creditors would conscript her two sons as slaves to repay the debt. She is desperate when she sees the prophet, Elisha, on t