Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
2 Kings 4:40 - Revised Standard Version And they poured out for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the pottage, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they poured it out for the men to eat. But as they ate of the pottage, they cried out, O man of God, there is death in the pot! And they could not eat it. American Standard Version (1901) So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. Common English Bible The stew was served to the men, but as they started to eat it, they cried out and said, “There is death in that pot, man of God!” They couldn’t eat it. Catholic Public Domain Version Then they poured it out for their companions to eat. And when they had tasted the mixture, they cried out, saying, "Death is in the cooking pot, O man of God!" And they were unable to eat. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they poured it out for their companions to eat: and when they had tasted of the pottage, they cried out saying: Death is in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat thereof. |
Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to cause the death of my son!”
Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he went up and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king's order, ‘Come down quickly!’ ”
Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and entreated him, “O man of God, I pray you, let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.
Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’ ”
One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of pottage, not knowing what they were.
And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who is continually passing our way.
Now therefore, forgive my sin, I pray you, only this once, and entreat the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.”
When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.
they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.