2 Kings 4:42

A man brings firstfruits of barley and grain, and Elisha says to feed the people. Generosity toward God's work meets a need beyond its apparent size.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Sam 9:7Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
• John 6:9There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
• John 6:13Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
• Matt 14:16–21But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
• Matt 15:32–38Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
• 1 Sam 9:4And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.
• 2 Kgs 7:1Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
• 2 Kgs 7:16–18And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
• Deut 8:8A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
• 2 Kgs 4:38And 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.
• Deut 32:14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
• 2 Chr 11:13–14And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
• Exod 23:16And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
• 1 Cor 9:11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
• Deut 12:6And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
• Deut 26:2–10That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
• Prov 3:9–10Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
• Gal 6:6Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

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