2 Kings 4:40

New International Reader's Version

The stew was poured out for the men. They began to eat it. But then they cried out, “Man of God, the food in that pot will kill us!” They couldn’t eat it.

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

One day Jacob was cooking some stew. Esau came in from the open country. He was very hungry.

1 Kings 17:18

The woman said to Elijah, “You are a man of God. What do you have against me? Did you come to bring my sin out into the open? Did you come to kill my son?”

2 Kings 1:11

After that happened, the king sent another captain to Elijah. The captain had his 50 men with him. He said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down at once!’ ”

2 Kings 1:13

So the king sent a third captain with his 50 men. The captain went up to Elijah. He fell on his knees in front of him. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life! Please have respect for the lives of these 50 men!

2 Kings 1:9

Then Ahaziah sent a captain to Elijah. The captain had his group of 50 fighting men with him. Elijah was sitting on top of a hill. The captain went up to him. He said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!’ ”

2 Kings 4:39

One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs. He found a wild vine and picked some of its gourds. He picked as many as he could fit in his coat. Then he cut them up and put them into the pot of stew. But no one knew what they were.

2 Kings 4:9

The woman said to her husband, “That man often comes by here. I know that he is a holy man of God.

Exodus 10:17

Now forgive my sin one more time. Pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.”

Exodus 15:23

When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink its water. It was bitter. That’s why the place is named Marah.

Mark 16:18

They will pick up snakes with their hands. And when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all. They will place their hands on sick people. And the people will get well.”

Deuteronomy 33:1

Here is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the Israelites before he died.