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40 The stew was poured out[a] for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it. 41 He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.”[b] There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet[c]—twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain.[d] Elisha[e] said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:40 tn Heb “and they poured out [the stew].” The plural subject is probably indefinite.
  2. 2 Kings 4:41 tn Or “and let them eat.”
  3. 2 Kings 4:42 tn Heb “man of God.”
  4. 2 Kings 4:42 tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.
  5. 2 Kings 4:42 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.