2 KINGS 4:39 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.”
A man from Baal-Shalishah brings Elisha twenty loaves of barley bread and fresh ears of grain — the gift acknowledges the prophet's authority and provides sustenance. The number twenty (esrim) suggests symbolic abundance.
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