2 Kings 4:38

Read in context

2 Kings 4:36–40 · Berean Standard Bible

36 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”

37 She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

38 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

39 One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

40 And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study 2 Kings 4:38

Read the commentary on 2 Kings 4

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Kings 2:1

Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,

1 Samuel 7:16

Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

Acts 15:36

Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

2 Kings 8:1

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:23

The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

Deuteronomy 28:24

The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:38

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

Deuteronomy 28:39

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:40

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

2 Samuel 21:1

During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

Jeremiah 14:1

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Jeremiah 14:2

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:3

The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

Jeremiah 14:4

The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Jeremiah 14:5

Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

Jeremiah 14:6

Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,

Luke 4:25

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

2 Kings 2:3

Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”

1 Samuel 19:20

he sent messengers to capture him. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel leading them, the Spirit of God came upon them, and Saul’s messengers also began to prophesy.

Proverbs 8:34

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.

Luke 2:46

Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 8:35

So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

Luke 8:38

The man whom the demons had left begged to go with Jesus. But He sent him away, saying,

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.

Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.

Mark 6:37

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”

Mark 8:2

“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

Mark 8:3

If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

Mark 8:4

His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to feed all these people?”

Mark 8:5

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.

Mark 8:6

And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And they distributed them to the crowd.

Luke 9:13

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

John 21:5

So He called out to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” “No,” they answered.

John 21:9

When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread.