37. She came in and bowed down at Elisha's feet. Then she picked up her son and left.
38. Later, Elisha went back to Gilgal, where there was almost nothing to eat, because the crops had failed.One day while the prophets who lived there were meeting with Elisha, he said to his servant, “Prepare a big pot of stew for these prophets.”
39. One of them went out into the woods to gather some herbs. He found a wild vine and picked as much of its fruit as he could carry, but he didn't know that the fruit was very sour. When he got back, he cut up the fruit and put it in the stew.
40. The stew was served, and when the prophets started eating it, they shouted, “Elisha, this stew tastes terrible! We can't eat it.”
41. “Bring me some flour,” Elisha said. He sprinkled the flour in the stew and said, “Now serve it to them.” And the stew tasted fine.
42. A man from the town of Baal-Shalishah brought Elisha some freshly cut grain and twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley that was harvested. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”
43. “There's not enough here for a hundred people,” his servant said.“Just give it to them,” Elisha replied. “The Lord has promised there will be more than enough.”