14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

Quoted or echoed by 2 later passages.

• Matt 14:19 · allusion
  "And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude."
  Elisha: feeding a hundred with twenty loaves — Jesus feeds five thousand
• Mark 6:41 · allusion
  "And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all."
  Elisha's multiplication — paralleled in Jesus feeding five thousand

• Elisha → Christ
• Elisha's Miracles Prefiguring Christ's

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Kgs 14:3 — And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
• 1Kgs 17:14 — For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
• 1Sam 9:4 — And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the l
• 1Sam 9:4 — And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the l
• 1Sam 9:7 — Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
• 1Sam 9:7 — Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
• 2Kgs 7:1 — Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate
• 2Kgs 7:1 — Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate
• Dan 1:15 — And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.
• John 6:9 — There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
• John 6:9 — There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
• John 6:13 — Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
• Luke 9:13 — But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
• Mark 6:37 — He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
• Mark 6:42 — And they did all eat, and were filled.
• Mark 8:8 — So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
• Matt 4:4 — But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
• Matt 14:16 — But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
• Matt 14:16 — But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
• Matt 15:32 — Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, le