2 Kings 4:43 meaning and explanation

But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”

2 Kings 4:43, Berean Standard Bible

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Elisha is at Gilgal during a famine, and a man from Baal-shalishah brings him twenty barley loaves made from the first ripe grain. The servant speaks for anyone doing the math: twenty loaves cannot feed a hundred men.

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