2 Kings 4:39

New Century Version

One of them went out into the field to gather plants. Finding a wild vine, he picked fruit from the vine and filled his robe with it. Then he came and cut up the fruit into the pot. But they didn’t know what kind of fruit it was.

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

One day Jacob was boiling a pot of vegetable soup. Esau came in from hunting in the fields, weak from hunger.

1 Kings 6:18

Everything inside the Temple was covered with cedar, which was carved with pictures of flowers and plants. A person could not see the stones of the wall, only the cedar.

2 Kings 4:38

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a shortage of food in the land. While the groups of prophets were sitting in front of him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on the fire, and boil some stew for these men.”

2 Kings 4:40

They poured out the stew for the others to eat. When they began to eat it, they shouted, “Man of God, there’s death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

Proverbs 19:2

Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard than I have already done? Although I expected good grapes to grow, why were there only bad ones?

Jeremiah 2:21

But I planted you as a special vine, as a very good seed. How then did you turn into a wild vine that grows bad fruit?

Matthew 15:13

Jesus answered, “Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted himself will be pulled up by the roots.

Hebrews 12:15

Be careful that no one fails to receive God’s grace and begins to cause trouble among you. A person like that can ruin many of you.