2 Kings 4:43
And his attendant said, How shall I set this before a hundred men? And he said, Give the people that they may eat; for thus saith Jehovah: They shall eat, and shall have to spare.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
44And he set [it] before them, and they ate and left [thereof], according to the word of Jehovah.
Cross References
Numbers 11:23And Jehovah said to Moses, Hath Jehovah's hand become short? Now shalt thou see whether my word will come to pass unto thee or not.
Matthew 14:20And all ate and were filled, and they took up what was over and above of fragments twelve hand-baskets full.
Matthew 15:37And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;
Mark 6:37And he answering said to them, Give *ye* them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?
Mark 8:4And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to satisfy these with bread here in a desert place?
Luke 9:13And he said to them, Give *ye them to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless *we* should go and 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 →