2 Kings 4:39

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger].

1 Kings 6:18

The cedar on the house within was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was visible.

2 Kings 4:38

Elisha came back to Gilgal during a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, Set on the big pot and cook pottage for the sons of the prophets.

2 Kings 4:40

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.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good, and to be overhasty is to sin and miss the mark.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could have been done for My vineyard that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to bring forth grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel] a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned into degenerate shoots of wild vine alien to Me?

Matthew 15:13

He answered, Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be torn up by the roots. [Isa. 60:21.]

Hebrews 12:15

Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another], to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God's grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it–