2 Kings 4:43
And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
44So he fief it before them: and they ate, and there was left according to the word of the Lord.
Cross References
Numbers 11:23And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord unable? Thou shalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.
Matthew 14:20And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments.
Matthew 15:37And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of what remained of the fragments.
Mark 6:37And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat.
Mark 8:4And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?
Luke 9:13But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps we should go and buy food for all this multitude.
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 →