2 Kings 4:37-39
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
37 She came in and fell at his feet in homage; then she took her son and left.
The Poisoned Stew. 38 (A)When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. Once, when the guild prophets were seated before him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on, and make some vegetable stew for the guild prophets.” 39 Someone went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, from which he picked a sackful of poisonous wild gourds. On his return he cut them up into the pot of vegetable stew without anybody’s knowing it.
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