2 Kings 4:38

During a famine Elisha tells his servant to make stew for the prophets at Gilgal. God's servant cares for His people even in scarcity.

Cross-references · 26

• 2 Kgs 2:1When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
• 2 Kgs 2:3The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
• 2 Kgs 8:1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”
• Acts 22:3“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
• Luke 10:39She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.
• Lev 26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
• Ezek 24:3Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the cauldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
• John 21:5Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”
• Mark 6:37But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?”
• 2 Sam 21:1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
• Prov 8:34Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
• Jer 14:1–6This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
• Luke 8:35People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
• John 21:9So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• Luke 9:13But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”
• Acts 15:36After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
• 1 Sam 7:16–17He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
• Luke 8:38But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
• 1 Sam 19:20Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
• Mark 8:2–6“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
• Deut 28:22–24Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
• Luke 4:25But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
• Deut 28:38–40You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.
• Ezek 14:13“Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;
• Luke 2:46After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

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