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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪下 4:41

他說:“拿些麵給我。”他把麵放在鍋中,說:“倒出來給眾人吃吧。”鍋裡就沒有毒了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elisha;   Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Elisha;   Miracles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Evil;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gourd;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Elisha;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Pottage;   Sons of the Prophets;   Vessels and Utensils;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Medicine;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gehazi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Christ;   Meal;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Vine;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elisha;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 利 沙 说 : 拿 点 面 来 , 就 把 面 撒 在 锅 中 , 说 : 倒 出 来 , 给 众 人 吃 罢 ! 锅 中 就 没 有 毒 了 。

Contextual Overview

38 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a shortage of food in the land. While the groups of prophets were sitting in front of him, he said to his servant, "Put the large pot on the fire, and boil some stew for these men." 39 One of them went out into the field to gather plants. Finding a wild vine, he picked fruit from the vine and filled his robe with it. Then he came and cut up the fruit into the pot. But they didn't know what kind of fruit it was. 40 They poured out the stew for the others to eat. When they began to eat it, they shouted, "Man of God, there's death in the pot!" And they could not eat it. 41 Elisha told them to bring some flour. He threw it into the pot and said, "Pour it out for the people to eat." Then there was nothing harmful in the pot. 42 A man from Baal Shalishah came to Elisha, bringing him twenty loaves of barley bread from the first harvest. He also brought fresh grain in his sack. Elisha said, "Give it to the people to eat." 43 Elisha's servant asked, "How can I feed a hundred people with so little?" "Give the bread to the people to eat," Elisha said. "This is what the Lord says: ‘They will eat and will have food left over.'" 44 After he gave it to them, the people ate and had food left over, as the Lord had said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he cast: 2 Kings 2:21, 2 Kings 5:10, 2 Kings 6:6, Exodus 15:25, John 9:6, 1 Corinthians 1:25

there: Acts 28:5

harm: Heb. evil thing

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 20:7 - Take a lump Hosea 9:8 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But he said, then bring meal: and he cast it into the pot,.... And stirred it about in it:

and he said, pour out for the people, that they may eat; as they now might freely, and without any danger, as he intimated:

and there was no harm in the pot; or anything that could do any harm or mischief to the health of men: this was not owing to the natural virtue of meal, but to a miraculous power attending it, whereby the pottage was cured of its malignity, as the bad waters of Jericho were by salt, in a preceding miracle.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then bring meal - The natural properties of meal would but slightly diminish either the bitterness or the unwholesomeness of a drink containing colocynth. It is evident, therefore, that the conversion of the food from a pernicious and unsavory mess into palatable and wholesome nourishment was by miracle.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 41. Bring meal. — Though this might, in some measure, correct the strong acrid and purgative quality; yet it was only a miracle which could make a lapful of this fruit shred into pottage salutary.


 
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