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Scott's Reference Library
2 Kings 4:42 through 2 Kings 4:44 (NIV)
42A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of
barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new
grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.
43“How can I set this before a hundred men?” his servant asked.
But Elisha answered, “Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the LORD
says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” 44Then he set it before them,
and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 38-44
There was a famine of bread, but not of hearing the word of God, for Elisha had
the sons of the prophets sitting before him, to hear his wisdom. Elisha made
hurtful food to become safe and wholesome. If a mess of pottage be all our
dinner, remember that this great prophet had no better for himself and his
guests. The table often becomes a snare, and that which should be for our
welfare, proves a trap: this is a good reason why we should not feed ourselves
without fear. When we are receiving the supports and comforts of life, we must
keep up an expectation of death, and a fear of sin. We must acknowledge God’s
goodness in making our food wholesome and nourishing; I am the Lord that healeth
thee. Elisha also made a little food go a great way. Having freely received, he
freely gave. God has promised his church, that he will abundantly bless her
provision, and satisfy her poor with bread, Psalms 132:15; whom he feeds, he
fills; and what he blesses, comes to much. Christ’s feeding his hearers was a
miracle far beyond this, but both teach us that those who wait upon God in the
way of duty, may hope to be supplied by Divine Providence.