2 Kings 4:39

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

1 Kings 6:18

The cedar within the house had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar; no stone was seen.

2 Kings 4:38

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.”

2 Kings 4:40

They served some for the men to eat. But while they were eating the stew, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” They could not eat it.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.

Isaiah 5:4

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield rotten grapes?

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you as a choice vine from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?

Matthew 15:13

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

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.