Lièwángjìxià 4:40

40 Dǎo chūlai gĕi zhòngrén chī , chī de shíhou , dōu hǎnjiào shuō , shén rén nǎ , guō zhōng yǒu zhì sǐ de dú wù . suǒyǐ zhòngrén bùnéng chī le .

Lièwángjìxià 4:40 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 4:40

So they poured out for the men to eat
When the pottage was boiled, they poured it out into dishes or basins, for the sons of the prophets to eat:

and it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they
cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot;
poison, the cause of death; the pottage was so exceeding bitter, that they concluded there must be some poisonous herb in it; and coloquintida is so bitter, that it is called "the gall of the earth":

and they could not eat thereof:
they stopped eating, it being so very disagreeable, and, as they supposed, dangerous.

Lièwángjìxià 4:40 In-Context

38 Yǐlìshā yòu lái dào Jíjiǎ , nà dì zhēng yǒu jīhuāng . xiānzhī méntǔ zuò zaì tā miànqián , tā fēnfu púrén shuō , nǐ jiāng dà guō fàng zaì huǒ shàng , gĕi xiānzhī méntǔ aó shāng .

39 Yǒu yī gèrén qù dào tiānyĕ qiā caì , yùjiàn yī kē yĕ guā téng , jiù zhāi le yī dōu yĕ guā huí lái , qiē le gé zaì aó shāng de guō zhōng , yīnwei tāmen bù zhīdào shì shénme dōngxǐ .

40 Dǎo chūlai gĕi zhòngrén chī , chī de shíhou , dōu hǎnjiào shuō , shén rén nǎ , guō zhōng yǒu zhì sǐ de dú wù . suǒyǐ zhòngrén bùnéng chī le .

41 Yǐlìshā shuō , ná diǎn miàn lái , jiù bǎ miàn sǎ zaì guō zhōng , shuō , dǎo chūlai , gĕi zhòngrén chī ba . guō zhōng jiù méiyǒu dú le .

42 Yǒu yī gèrén cóng bā lì shā lì shā lái , daì zhe chū shóu dàmaì zuò de bǐng èr shí gè , bìng xīn suì zǐ , zhuāng zaì kǒudai lǐ sòng gĕi shén rén . shén rén shuō , bǎ zhèxie gĕi zhòngrén chī .