2 Kings 4:39 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁹ One of them went out into the field to gather herbs; he found a wild vine and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ Then one went into the field to gather herbs and gathered from a wild vine his lap full of wild gourds, and returned and cut them up into the pot of pottage, for they were unknown to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.

Common English Bible

³⁹ So one of them went out to the field to gather plants; he found a wild vine and gathered wild gourds from it, filling his garment. He came and cut them up into the pot of stew, but no one knew what they were.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ And one went out into the field, so that he might collect wild herbs. And he found something like a wild vine, and he gathered from it bitter fruits of the field, and he filled his cloak. And returning, he cut these up for the pot of soup. But he did not know what it was.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field, and filled his mantle. And coming back he shred them into the pot of pottage, for he knew not what it was.

2 Kings 4:39 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

1 Kings 6:18

The cedar within the house had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar; no stone was seen.

2 Kings 4:38

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the company of prophets was sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on, and make some stew for the company of prophets.”

2 Kings 4:40

They served some for the men to eat. But while they were eating the stew, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” They could not eat it.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.

Isaiah 5:4

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield rotten grapes?

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you as a choice vine from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?

Matthew 15:13

He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.