Holy Scripture

2 Kings 4:43

A church father on this verse
“Here two miracles are proposed, which Elisha performed while he was among his disciples. He accomplished the first when he caused death to leave the pot, where, as they said, it had hidden. He performed the second when he nourished one hundred prophets with a little bit of bread. In both miracles he prefigures him who…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 4:38

Source: Septuagint

Original

43And his servant said, Why should I set this before a hundred men? and he said, Give to the people, and let them eat; for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat and leave.

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In context

41And he said, Take meal, and cast it into the pot. And Elisha said to his servant Gehazi, Pour out for the people, and let them eat. And there was no longer there any hurtful thing in the pot.

42And there came a man over from Baal-shalishah, and brought to the man of God twenty barley loaves and cakes of figs, of the firstfruits. And he said, Give to the people, and let them eat.

— 2 Kings 4:43 —

44And they ate and left, according to the word of the Lord.

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