At that time, there was a drought and the prophets-in-training were sitting facing him, and Elisha told his servant, “Get the large pot and boil a stew for these prophets-in-training.” 39 One person went out to the countryside to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine, and he collected wild fruit from it—as many as he could hold in the fold of his robe. Then not realising that they were poisonous, he came and he sliced them into the pot of stew. 40 Then they served it up for the men to eat, but when they ate it, they called out, “Man of God, there’s poison in that pot!” 41 “Bring me some flour,” Elisha said. Then he threw it into the pot, and said, “Serve it up for the people to eat,” and no one was harmed.

42 One day a man came from Ba’al-Shalishah, and he brought to the man of God an offering from the beginning of his harvest: twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly-harvested corn in his sack, and Elisha said to his servant, “Give it to our people so they can eat.”

43 “How can I divide that out to one hundred men?” asked his servant.

“Give them to the people so they can eat,” he replied, “because Yahweh says that they can eat and have left-overs.” 44 So he laid it out in front of them and they ate and had left-overs, just like Yahweh had said would happen.