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Darby's French Translation

2 Rois 4:40

Et on versa à manger aux hommes; et il arriva que, comme ils mangeaient du potage, on cria et dit: Homme de Dieu, la mort est dans la marmite! Et ils n'en pouvaient manger.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elisha;   Gilgal;   Miracles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Famine;   Herbs, &C;   Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pots;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gourd;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Elisha;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Plants in the Bible;   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;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et on en versa à ces gens pour manger; mais sitôt qu'ils eurent mangé de ce potage, ils s'écrièrent: Homme de Dieu, la mort est dans ce pot! Et ils n'en purent manger.
Louis Segond (1910)
On servit à manger à ces hommes; mais dès qu'ils eurent mangé du potage, ils s'écrièrent: La mort est dans le pot, homme de Dieu! Et ils ne purent manger.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et on dressa de ce potage à quelques-uns pour en manger; mais sitôt qu'ils eurent mangé de ce potage, ils s'écrièrent et dirent : Homme de Dieu, la mort est dans la chaudière; et ils n'en purent manger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O thou: 2 Kings 4:9, 2 Kings 1:9, 2 Kings 1:11, 2 Kings 1:13, Deuteronomy 33:1, 1 Kings 17:18

death: Exodus 10:17, Exodus 15:23, Mark 16:18

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 13:19 - the man of God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they poured out for the men to eat,.... When the pottage was boiled, they poured it out into dishes or basins, for the sons of the prophets to eat:

and it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot; poison, the cause of death; the pottage was so exceeding bitter, that they concluded there must be some poisonous herb in it; and coloquintida is so bitter, that it is called "the gall of the earth":

and they could not eat thereof: they stopped eating, it being so very disagreeable, and, as they supposed, dangerous.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. There is death in the pot. — As if they had said, "We have here a deadly mixture; if we eat of it, we shall all die."


 
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