2 Kings 4:39

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

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

1 Kings 6:18

The cedar in the interior of the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers; all was of cedar, and no stone was to be seen.

2 Kings 4:38

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.”

2 Kings 4:40

The stew was served, but when they began to eat it, they cried, “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 whoever acts hastily, blunders.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could be done for my vineyard that I did not do? Why, when I waited for the crop of grapes, did it yield rotten grapes?

Jeremiah 2:21

But I had planted you as a choice vine, all pedigreed stock; How could you turn out so obnoxious to me, a spurious vine?

Matthew 15:13

He said in reply, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,