2 Kings 4:41

41 But he said , Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said , Pour out for the people, that they may eat . And there was no harm in the pot.

2 Kings 4:41 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 4:41

But he said, then bring meal: and he cast it into the pot,
&c.] And stirred it about in it:

and he said, pour out for the people, that they may eat;
as they now might freely, and without any danger, as he intimated:

and there was no harm in the pot;
or anything that could do any harm or mischief to the health of men: this was not owing to the natural virtue of meal, but to a miraculous power attending it, whereby the pottage was cured of its malignity, as the bad waters of Jericho were by salt, in a preceding miracle.

2 Kings 4:41 In-Context

39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

40 So they poured out for the men 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. And they could not eat thereof.

41 But he said , Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said , Pour out for the people, that they may eat . And there was no harm in the pot.

42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said , Give unto the people, that they may eat .

43 And his servitor said , What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again , Give the people, that they may eat : for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat , and shall leave thereof.

Footnotes

• [a]. harm: Heb. evil thing