2 Kings 4:39 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁹ And one went out to the field to gather plants, and found a wild vine, and gathered wild cucumbers from it, filling the skirt of his garment, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know 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.

2 Kings 4:39 Cross References

Genesis 25:29

And Yaʽ

1 Kings 6:18

And the cedar for the House inside was carved with ornaments and open flowers; all was cedar, not a stone was seen.

2 Kings 4:38

And Elisha returned to Gilgal. And the scarcity of food was in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot, and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”

2 Kings 4:40

They then served it to the men to eat. And it came to be, as they were eating the stew, that they cried out and said, “O man of Elohim, there is death in the pot!” And they were unable to eat it.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, desire without knowledge is not good; And he who hurries with his feet sins.

Isaiah 5:4

“What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?

Jeremiah 2:21

“Yet I had planted you a choice vine, all of it a true seed. How then have you turned before Me into the degenerate plant of a strange vine?

Matthew 15:13

But He answering, said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,