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2 Rois 4:40
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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.
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.
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."