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2 Reyes 4:43

Y respondió su sirviente: ¿Cómo he de poner esto delante de cien hombres? Pero él volvió a decir: Da a la gente para que coman, porque así dice Jehová: Comerán, y sobrará.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elisha;   Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Elisha;   Feeding the Multitude;   Loaves, Miracles of;   Miracles;   Miracles of Loaves;   Multitude;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Miracles;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Minister;   Servitor;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Minister;   Servant;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baal-Shalishah;   Elisha;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Sons of the Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Medicine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gehazi;   Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;   Minister;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y su sirviente dijo: ¿Cómo pondré esto delante de cien hombres? Pero él respondió: Dalos a la gente para que coman, porque así dice el Señor : "Comerán y sobrará."
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Kings 4:43"> 43 Y respondió su sirviente: ¿Cómo he de poner esto delante de cien hombres? Mas él tornó á decir: Da á la gente para que coman, porque así ha dicho Jehová: Comerán, y sobrará.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y respondió él que le servía: ¿Cómo he de poner esto delante de cien varones? Mas él volvió a decir: Da al pueblo para que coman, porque así dijo el SEÑOR: Comerán, y sobrará.

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.


 
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