2 Kings 4:38

Modern English Version

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, “Put on the big cooking pot, and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field and he was famished.

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David called upon the Lord. The Lord said, “There is blood guilt upon Saul and upon his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there will not be dew or rain these years except by my word.”

2 Kings 2:1

Then when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

2 Kings 2:3

The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord is taking away your master from you?” And he said, “Yes, I know. Keep silent.”

2 Kings 4:1

Now one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves.”

2 Kings 4:39

One went out into the field to gather herbs. He found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds, filling his clothes, and came and split them into the pot of stew, but they did not recognize them.

2 Kings 8:1

Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get up and go, you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.”

Job 30:4

Who pluck mallow by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.

Proverbs 8:34

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Ezekiel 11:3

who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the flesh.’

Ezekiel 11:7

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh and this city is the cauldron. But I will bring you out of the midst of it.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when the land sins against Me by trespassing grievously, then I will stretch out My hand against it, and break the staff of the bread, and send famine against it, and cut off man and beast from it.

Ezekiel 24:3

Utter a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Put on the pot, put it on, and also pour water into it.

Leviticus 26:26

When I have broken the supply of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Amos 7:14

But Amos answered Amaziah: “I am no prophet, and I am no prophet’s disciple. Rather, I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees.

Mark 6:37

But He answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They said to Him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”

Luke 10:39

She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and listened to His teaching.

Luke 2:46

After three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 4:25

But I tell you truthfully, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land.

Luke 8:35

Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

Luke 8:38

Now the man from whom the demons had departed asked Him if he could stay with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,

Luke 9:13

He said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

John 21:5

Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered Him, “No.”

John 21:9

When they came to land, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish lying on it, and bread.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Acts 15:36

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit our brothers in every city where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”

Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. At the feet of Gamaliel I was trained in the strict tradition of the law of the fathers, being zealous toward God as you all are today.

1 Samuel 19:20

Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and Samuel taking his stand over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul and they also prophesied.