One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished. Cross References Genesis 25:30 He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished." (That is why he was also called Edom.) Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright. 2 Kings 4:38 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, "Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets." 2 Kings 4:39 One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. Haggai 2:12 If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?'" "No," replied the priests. Treasury of Scripture And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: A. Judges 8:4,5 1 Samuel 14:28,31 Proverbs 13:25 |