2 Kings 4:42

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Summary

And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

Baal-shalisha

1 Samuel 9:4

Bread

Of barley

General references

Mark 6:42

Bible References

Baal-shalisha

He passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not find them.

Bread

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Also you shall observe the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field.

There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the Lord your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.

Then Saul said to his servant, “But behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is gone from our sack and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”

Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him from all their districts.

Honor the Lord from your wealth

And from the first of all your produce;

If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.

Of barley

Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

Curds of cows, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the finest of the wheat—

And of the blood of grapes you drank wine.

“There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?”

General references

They all ate and were satisfied,