2 Kings 4:43
And his minister says, “How do I give this before one hundred men?” And he says, “Give to the people, and they eat, for thus said YHWH: Eat and leave”;
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44and he gives before them, and they eat and leave, according to the word of YHWH.
Cross References
Numbers 11:23And YHWH says to Moses, “Has the hand of YHWH become short? Now you see whether My word meets you or not.”
Matthew 14:20and they all ate, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces twelve hand-baskets full;
Matthew 15:37And they all ate, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces seven baskets full,
Mark 6:37And He answering said to them, “You give them to eat,” and they say to Him, “Having gone away, may we buy two hundred denarii worth of loaves, and give to them to eat?”
Mark 8:4And His disciples answered Him, “From where will anyone be able to feed these here in a wilderness with bread?”
Luke 9:13And He said to them, “You give them to eat”; and they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fishes: except, having gone, we may 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 →