³ Tell this rebellious people^(A) a parable^(B) and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

³ They say, ‘Haven’t our houses been recently rebuilt? This city is a pot,^(A) and we are the meat in it.’^(B)

⁷ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot,^(A) but I will drive you out of it.^(B)

¹¹ This city will not be a pot^(A) for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.

Death in the Pot

³⁸ Elisha returned to Gilgal^(A) and there was a famine^(B) in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”