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37 She came and fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground; then she picked up her son and went out.

Elisha Secures the Food

38 So Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now the famine was in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his servant, put on the large pot and cook a stew for the sons of the prophets. 39 One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine[a] and gathered wild gourds from it and filled his cloak. Then he came and cut them into the pot of stew, but they did not know what they were.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:39 Literally “a vine of the field”