40 So they poured out for the men to eat: and when they did eat of the pottage, they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, [a]death is in the pot: and they could not eat thereof.

41 Then he said, Bring meal. And he cast it into the pot, and said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat: and there was none evil in the pot.

42 ¶ Then came a man from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, even twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:40 They feared that they were poisoned, because of the bitterness.

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