John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 4:40

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So they poured out for the men to eat, etc.] When the pottage was boiled, they poured it out into dishes or basins, for the sons of the prophets to eat: and it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot; poison, the cause of death; the pottage was so exceeding bitter, that they concluded there must be some poisonous herb in it; and coloquintida is so bitter, that it is called “the gall of the earth”: and they could not eat thereof: they stopped eating, it being so very disagreeable, and, as they supposed, dangerous.

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