2 Kings 4:38

New American Bible - revised edition

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. Once, when the guild prophets were seated before him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on, and make some vegetable stew for the guild prophets.”

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

Once, when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.

2 Samuel 21:1

In David’s time there was a famine for three years, year after year. David sought the presence of the Lord, who said: There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death.

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”

2 Kings 2:1

When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, he and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.

2 Kings 2:3

The guild prophets who were in Bethel went out to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take your master from you?” He replied, “Yes, I know that. Be still.”

2 Kings 4:1

A certain woman, the widow of one of the guild prophets, cried out to Elisha: “My husband, your servant, is dead. You know that he revered the Lord, yet now his creditor has come to take my two children into servitude.”

2 Kings 4:39

Someone went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, from which he picked a sackful of poisonous wild gourds. On his return he cut them up into the pot of vegetable stew without anybody’s knowing it.

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha once said to the woman whose son he had restored to life: “Get ready! Leave with your household and live wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a seven-year famine which is coming upon the land.”

Job 30:4

They plucked saltwort and shrubs; the roots of the broom plant were their food.

Proverbs 8:34

Happy the one who listens to me, attending daily at my gates, keeping watch at my doorposts;

Ezekiel 11:3

They are saying, “No need to build houses! The city is the pot, and we are the meat.”

Ezekiel 11:7

Therefore thus says the Lord God: The slain whom you piled up in it, that is the meat, the pot is the city. But you I will bring out of it.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, if a land sins against me by breaking faith, and I stretch out my hand against it, breaking its staff of bread and setting famine loose upon it, cutting off from it human being and beast alike—

Ezekiel 24:3

Propose this parable to the rebellious house and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Put the pot on, put it on! Pour in some water;

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Amos 7:14

Amos answered Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor do I belong to a company of prophets. I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamores,

Mark 6:37

He said to them in reply, “Give them some food yourselves.” But they said to him, “Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food and give it to them to eat?”

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary [who] sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak.

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

Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land.

Luke 8:35

People came out to see what had happened and, when they approached Jesus, they discovered the man from whom the demons had come out sitting at his feet. He was clothed and in his right mind, and they were seized with fear.

Luke 8:38

The man from whom the demons had come out begged to remain with him, but he sent him away, saying,

Luke 9:13

He said to them, “Give them some food yourselves.” They replied, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have, unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people.”

John 21:5

Jesus said to them, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”

John 21:9

When they climbed out on shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish on it and bread.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Acts 15:36

After some time, Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us make a return visit to see how the brothers are getting on in all the cities where we proclaimed the word of the Lord.”

Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. At the feet of Gamaliel I was educated strictly in our ancestral law and was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

1 Samuel 19:20

he sent officers to arrest David. But when they saw the band of prophets presided over by Samuel in a prophetic state, the spirit of God came upon them and they too fell into the prophetic ecstasy.