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A Gourds Belly Ache

by PamFord Davis  
10/09/2023 / Devotionals

"You'll get a belly ache if you eat those green apples."

My mom had to expand the warning. We had apple, pear and plum trees in our Mycenae neighborhood; eating unripe fruit could definitely give me a belly ache. Some things are just not meant to be eaten.

Don’t eat gourds; you’ll get a belly ache!

“When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet. He said to his attendant, ‘Put on the large pot and make stew for the sons of the prophets.’

One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware of what they were.

They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, ‘There’s death in the pot, man of God!’ And they were unable to eat it.

Then Elisha said, ‘Get some meal.’ He threw it into the pot and said, ‘Serve it for the people to eat.’ And there was nothing bad in the pot (2 Kings 4:38-41 HCSB).”

I don’t believe there’s any chance of seeing that concoction on food network.

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