2 Kings 4:39 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³⁹ One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware of what they were.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ Then one went into the field to gather herbs and gathered from a wild vine his lap full of wild gourds, and returned and cut them up into the pot of pottage, for they were unknown to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.

Common English Bible

³⁹ So one of them went out to the field to gather plants; he found a wild vine and gathered wild gourds from it, filling his garment. He came and cut them up into the pot of stew, but no one knew what they were.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ And one went out into the field, so that he might collect wild herbs. And he found something like a wild vine, and he gathered from it bitter fruits of the field, and he filled his cloak. And returning, he cut these up for the pot of soup. But he did not know what it was.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field, and filled his mantle. And coming back he shred them into the pot of pottage, for he knew not what it was.

2 Kings 4:39 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.

1 Kings 6:18

The cedar panelling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds  and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar;  not a stone could be seen.

2 Kings 4:38

When Elisha returned to Gilgal,  there was a famine  in the land. The sons of the prophets  were sitting before him.  He said to his attendant, ‘Put on the large pot and make stew for the sons of the prophets.’

2 Kings 4:40

They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, ‘There’s death in the pot,  man of God! ’ And they were unable to eat it.

Proverbs 19:2

Even zeal is not good without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily   sins.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?

Matthew 15:13

He replied, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Hebrews 12:15

Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and defiling many.