2 Kings 4:38
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Elisha
- 2 Kings 2:1; 1 Samuel 7:16, 17; Acts 10:38; Acts 15:36
- a dearth
- 2 Kings 8:1; Leviticus 26:26; Deuteronomy 28:22–24, 38–40; 2 Samuel 21:1; Jeremiah 14:1–6; Ezekiel 14:13; Luke 4:25
- the sons
- 2 Kings 2:3; 1 Samuel 19:20
- were sitting
- Proverbs 8:34; Luke 2:46; Luke 8:35, 38; Luke 10:39; Acts 22:3
- Set on the great pot
- Mark 6:37; Mark 8:2–6; Luke 9:13; John 21:5, 9