2 Kings 4:43
And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give to the people that they may eat, for thus says LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave of it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
44So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it according to the word of LORD.
Cross References
Numbers 11:23And LORD said to Moses, Is LORD's hand grown short? Now thou shall see whether my word shall come to pass to thee or not.
Matthew 14:20And they all ate, and were filled. And they took up that which remained of the fragments, twelve baskets full.
Matthew 15:37And they all ate and were filled. And they took up seven hampers full of the fragments that remained.
Mark 6:37But having answered, he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, After departing, shall we buy loaves of two hundred denarii, and give them to eat?
Mark 8:4And his disciples answered him, From where will anyone be able to fill these men of loaves here in a desolate place?
Luke 9:13But he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, There are for us not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless, after going, we might buy food for all this people.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 4:39-44
The Miracle on the Poisoned Pottage; the Miracle on the Barley Loaves. ( b. c. 887.) 38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 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… Read the whole commentary →