2 Kings 4:38-40

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³⁸ Elisha now returned to Gilgal, but there was a famine in the land. One day as he was teaching the young prophets, he said to Gehazi, “Make some stew for supper for these men.”

³⁹ One of the young men went out into the field to gather vegetables and came back with some wild gourds. He shredded them and put them into a kettle without realizing that they were poisonous. ⁴⁰ But after the men had eaten a bite or two they cried out, “Oh, sir, there’s poison in this stew!”