2nd Kings Chapter 4 verse 44 Holy Bible
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of Jehovah.
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So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.
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And he set [it] before them, and they ate and left [thereof], according to the word of Jehovah.
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So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
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So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it, according to the word of the LORD.
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So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it, according to the word of Yahweh.
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and he giveth before them, and they eat and leave, according to the word of Jehovah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 44. - So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord. We are not expressly told how the miracle was wrought, whether by an augmentation of the quantity of the food supernaturally produced, or by a lessening of the appetites of the men, as Bahr supposes. But the analogy of our Lord's miracles of feeding the multitudes, whereof this is a manifest type, makes it probable that in this case also there was a miraculous increase of the food. The object of the writer in communicating the account is certainly not merely to show how the Lord cared for his servants, but to relate another miracle wrought by Elisha, of a different kind from those previously related. He is occupied with Elisha's miracles through this entire chanter and through the three next.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(44) And they did eat, and left thereof.--Comp. our Lord's miracles, already referred to. Bahr denies any miraculous increase of the food. He makes the miracle consist in the fact that the one hundred men were satisfied with the little they received, and even had some to spare. Similarly, Thenius thinks that the provisions were not inconsiderable for a hundred men (?), and that the emphasis of the narrative lies rather on Elisha's absolute confidence in God than on His wonder-working powers; but this is certainly opposed to the sacred writer's intention. Keil rightly calls attention to the fact that Elisha does not perform, but only predicts, this miracle.
