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2 Kings 4:41-43
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41 He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.”[a] There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet[b]—twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain.[c] Elisha[d] said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.” 43 But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?”[e] He replied, “Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the Lord has said, ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”[f]

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  1. 2 Kings 4:41 tn Or “and let them eat.”
  2. 2 Kings 4:42 tn Heb “man of God.”
  3. 2 Kings 4:42 tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.
  4. 2 Kings 4:42 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  5. 2 Kings 4:43 tn Heb “How can I set this before a hundred men?”
  6. 2 Kings 4:43 tn The verb forms are infinitives absolute (Heb “eating and leaving over”) and have to be translated in light of the context.
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