2 Kings 4:43
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
KJV
Responditque ei minister ejus : Quantum est hoc, ut apponam centum viris ? Rursum ille ait : Da populo, ut comedat : hæc enim dicit Dominus : Comedent, et supererit.
Vulgate
καὶ εἶπεν ὁ λειτουργὸς αὐτοῦ Τί; δῶ τοῦτο ἐνώπιον ἑκατὸν ἀνδρῶν; καὶ εἶπεν Δὸς τῷ λαῷ καὶ ἐσθιέτωσαν, ὅτι τάδε λέγει Κύριος Φάγονται καὶ καταλείψουσιν.
LXX
And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith Jehovah, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
ASV
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ מְשָׁ֣רְת֔/וֹ מָ֚ה אֶתֵּ֣ן זֶ֔ה לִ/פְנֵ֖י מֵ֣אָה אִ֑ישׁ וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר תֵּ֤ן לָ/עָם֙ וְ/יֹאכֵ֔לוּ כִּ֣י כֹ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֖ה אָכֹ֥ל וְ/הוֹתֵֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Typology
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Beloved, let us not contend with violent men, but learn when the doing so brings no hurt to our virtue to give place to their evil counsels; for so all their hardihood is checked. As darts when they fall upon a firm, hard, and resisting substance, rebound with great violence on those who throw them, but when the violence of the cast has nothing to oppose it, it soon becomes …
Cross-references
- 2Chr 31:10 — And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: fo
- 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 6:11 — And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
- 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.
- Luke 9:17 — And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
- 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 8:20 — And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
- Matt 14:16 — But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
- Matt 14:20 — And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
- Matt 14:20 — And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
- Matt 15:33 — And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
- Matt 15:37 — And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
- Matt 16:8 — Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
- Ruth 2:14 — And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was