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 Saul said to his servant, “But, behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”
• John 6:9“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”
• John 6:13So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
• Matt 14:16–21But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
• Matt 15:32–38Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”
• 1 Sam 9:4He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren’t there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn’t find them.
• 2 Kgs 7:1Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”
• 2 Kgs 7:16–18The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to Yahweh’s word.
• Deut 8:8a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
• 2 Kgs 4:38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
• Deut 32:14butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
• 2 Chr 11:13–14The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory.
• Exod 23:16And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
• 1 Cor 9:11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
• Deut 12:6There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
• Deut 26:2–10that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
• Gal 6:6But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

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