Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 4:1

NOw there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto El sha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD : and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bond-men .

Who, though they were wholly devoted to Sacred employment, were not excluded from Marriage, no more than the Priests and Levites.

His poverty therefore was not procured by his idleness, or prodigality, or rather, wickedness; but by his Piety, because he would not comply with the Kings way of worship, and therefore lost all worldly advantages.

Either, to use them as his slaves, or to sell them to others, according to his Law. Of which see Exod. 21. 2. Levit. 25. 39. Isa. 50. 1. Matth. 18. 25.