Then bring meal - The natural properties of meal would only slightly diminish either the bitterness or the unwholesomeness of a drink contai…

Elisha among the sons of the prophets at Gilgal during the famine.

But he said, then bring meal: and he cast it into the pot ,
&c.] And stirred it about in it:

and …

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. El…