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So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, man of God, there is death in the pot. They could not eat of it.
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A Taste of Death
Commentators explain that the cry "death in the pot" was a reaction to the stew's extreme bitterness. The taste was so foul and potentially sickening that the men immediately concluded it was poisonous. As one scholar notes, the likely ingredient, the wild gourd, was known for a bitterness so intense it was sometimes called "the gall of the earth."
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19th Century
Anglican
There is death in the pot. —The bitter taste, and perhaps incipient effect of the stew, made them think of poison.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So they poured out for the men to eat When the pottage was boiled, they poured it out into dishes or basins, for the…
Presbyterian
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…
