列王纪下 4:43

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他的僕人說：“我怎能把這一些食物擺在一百個人面前呢？”神人說：“給眾人吃吧，因為耶和華這樣說：‘他們要吃，而且還有剩下的。’”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
仆 人 说 ： 这 一 点 岂 可 摆 给 一 百 人 吃 呢 ？ 以 利 沙 说 ： 你 只 管 给 众 人 吃 罢 ！ 因 为 耶 和 华 如 此 说 ， 众 人 必 吃 了 ， 还 剩 下 。

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

his servitor: 2 Kings 4:12

What: Matthew 14:16, Matthew 14:17, Matthew 15:33, Matthew 15:34, Mark 6:37-39, Mark 8:4, Luke 9:13, John 6:9

They shall eat: Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Matthew 16:8-10, Mark 6:42, Mark 6:43, Mark 8:20, Luke 9:17, John 6:11-13

Reciprocal: Ruth 2:14 - she did 2 Kings 4:6 - when the vessels 2 Chronicles 31:10 - we have had Hosea 9:8 - with John 6:7 - Two

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his servitor said,.... His servant Gehazi very probably:

what, should I set this before one hundred men? for so many, it seems, the sons of the prophets were in this place; and these loaves being very small, no more, it is thought by some, than one man could eat, and the ears of corn but few, the servant suggests they would be nothing comparatively to such a company of men:

he said again, give the people, that they may eat; he insisted upon it that his orders should be obeyed:

for thus saith the Lord, they shall eat, and shall leave thereof; it was suggested to him by a spirit of prophecy, there would be enough for them, and to spare.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This miracle was a faint foreshadowing of our Lord’s far more marvelous feeding of thousands with even scantier materials. The resemblance is not only in the broad fact, but in various minute particulars, such as the distribution through the hands of others; the material, bread; the surprised question of the servant; and the evidence of superfluity in the fragments that were left (see the marginal references). As Elijah was a type of the Baptist, so Elisha was in many respects a type of our Blessed Lord. In his peaceful, non-ascetic life, in his mild and gentle character, in his constant circuits, in his many miracles of mercy, in the healing virtue which abode in his bodily frame 2 Kings 13:21, he resembled, more than any other prophet, the Messiah, of whom all prophets were more or less shadows and figures.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 4:43. Thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.] It was God, not the prophet, who fed one hundred men with these twenty loaves, &c. This is something like our Lord's feeding the multitude miraculously. Indeed, there are many things in this chapter similar to facts in our Lord's history: and this prophet might be more aptly considered a type of our Lord, than most of the other persons in the Scriptures who have been thus honoured.