2 Kings 4:38-44 (New Revised Standard)
38
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the company of prophets was a sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Put the large pot on, and make some stew for the company of prophets." b
39
One of them went out into the field to gather herbs; he found a wild vine and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.
40
They served some for the men to eat. But while they were eating the stew, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" They could not eat it.
41
He said, "Then bring some flour." He threw it into the pot, and said, "Serve the people and let them eat." And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
42
A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, "Give it to the people and let them eat."
43
But his servant said, "How can I set this before a hundred people?" So he repeated, "Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus says the Lord, "They shall eat and have some left.' "
44
He set it before them, they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the Lord.
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes
a.
2 Kings 4:38 - Heb [sons of the prophets were]
b.
2 Kings 4:38 - Heb [sons of the prophets]