2 Kings 4:38-41

Legacy Standard Bible

The Death in the Stew

³⁸ Now Elisha returned to ^(A)Gilgal, and there was ^(B)a famine in the land. ^[a]As ^(C)the sons of the prophets ^(D)were sitting before him, he said to his young man, “^(E)Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” ³⁹ Then one went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds filling his cloak and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were. ⁴⁰ So they poured it out for the men to eat. And it happened that as they were eating of the stew, they cried out and said, “O man of God, there is ^(F)death in the pot.” And they were unable to eat. ⁴¹ But he said, “Now bring flour.” ^(G)He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people that they may eat.” Then there was no harm in the pot.