2 Kings 4:39

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware of what they were.

Cross References

Hebrews 12:15

Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and defiling many.

Matthew 15:13

He replied, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?

Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.

1 Kings 6:18

The cedar panelling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds  and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar;  not a stone could be seen.

2 Kings 4:38

When Elisha returned to Gilgal,  there was a famine  in the land. The sons of the prophets  were sitting before him.  He said to his attendant, ‘Put on the large pot and make stew for the sons of the prophets.’

2 Kings 4:40

They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, ‘There’s death in the pot,  man of God! ’ And they were unable to eat it.

Proverbs 19:2

Even zeal is not good without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily   sins.