2 Kings 4:39

A Conservative Version

And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered wild gourds from it, his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage, for they did not know them.

Cross References

Hebrews 12:15

Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be defiled,

Matthew 15:13

But having answered, he said, Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant, will be uprooted.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

Isaiah 5:4

What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?

Genesis 25:29

And Jacob boiled pottage. And Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

1 Kings 6:18

And there was cedar on the house inside, carved with knops and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone seen.

2 Kings 4:38

And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

2 Kings 4:40

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 of it.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good. And he who hastens with his feet sins.