2 Kings 4:38

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the company of prophets was sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on, and make some stew for the company of prophets.”

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, 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 inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

2 Kings 2:1

Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.

2 Kings 2:3

The company of prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take your master away from you?” And he said, “Yes, I know; keep silent.”

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of 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 children as slaves.”

2 Kings 4:39

One of them went out into the field to gather herbs; he found a wild vine and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.

2 Kings 8:1

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

Job 30:4

they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes and to warm themselves the roots of broom.

Proverbs 8:34

Happy is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

Ezekiel 11:3

they say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the meat.’

Ezekiel 11:7

Therefore thus says the Lord God: The slain whom you have placed within it are the meat, and this city is the pot, but you shall be taken out of it.

Ezekiel 14:13

Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly and I stretch out my hand against it and cut off its supply of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it humans and animals,

Ezekiel 24:3

And utter an allegory to the rebellious house and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Set on the pot; set it on; pour in water also;

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Amos 7:14

Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am no prophet nor a prophet’s son, but 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, “Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus’s feet and listened to what he was saying.

Luke 2:46

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 4:25

But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months and there was a severe famine over all the land,

Luke 8:35

Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they became frightened.

Luke 8:38

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

Luke 9:13

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

John 21:5

Jesus said to them, “Children, you have no fish, have you?” They answered him, “No.”

John 21:9

When they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish on it, and bread.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he 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, “Come, let us return and visit the brothers and sisters in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”

Acts 22:3

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

1 Samuel 19:20

Then Saul sent messengers to take David. When they saw the company of the prophets in a frenzy, with Samuel standing in charge of them, the spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also fell into a prophetic frenzy.