Discovery Box2 Kings 4:42 
ContextElisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People
4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet 1 – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. 2 Elisha 3 said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”
2 Kings 7:1
Context7:1 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah 4 of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”
1 tn Heb “man of God.”
2 tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.
