# Stew and Axe - The Book of 2 Kings

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 7 Dec 2023, 11 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 104. Embark on exciting tales of Elisha, a kind-hearted prophet. Join him as he helps a widow in need and performs amazing miracles, like making food safe to eat and even making a lost axhead float, all with the help of God's extraordinary power. These stories show how faith and kindness can turn challenges into magical moments. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Then he said, Go borrow empty containers from all your neighbors.
[0:05] Speaker 1: Don't borrow just a few containers. Go in and shut
[0:09] Speaker 1: the door on you and on your sons and pour
[0:13] Speaker 1: oil into all those containers. 2 Kings 4, 3-4 Dear God,
[0:21] Speaker 1: thank you that you give us exactly what we need.
[0:24] Speaker 1: When we are sad, you fill us with joy. When
[0:28] Speaker 1: we are discouraged, you fill us with hope. When we
[0:31] Speaker 1: are weak, you fill us with strength. Please help us
[0:34] Speaker 1: learn even more about how wonderful you are in our
[0:38] Speaker 1: story today. Thank you. We love you so much. In Jesus'
[0:43] Speaker 1: name I pray. Amen.
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[1:19] Speaker 3: Stew and Axe In our last story, war between Israel
[1:25] Speaker 3: and Moab broke out. Elisha gave a word from the Lord,
[1:28] Speaker 3: that Moab would be given over to them. In this story,
[1:33] Speaker 3: Elisha will help a widow and make an axe head float,
[1:36] Speaker 3: as inspired by 2 Kings.
[1:42] Speaker 1: Hi again, it's Joya Sadler with the Kids Bible in
[1:45] Speaker 1: the Air podcast. I'm so excited you're here with me today.
[1:49] Speaker 1: Today we're going to learn about a widow who almost
[1:52] Speaker 1: lost her sons, prophets who were almost poisoned, people who
[1:58] Speaker 1: almost went hungry, and an important tool that was almost
[2:03] Speaker 1: lost forever. But then God stepped in and changed everything.
[2:08] Speaker 4: Let's find out what happened.
[2:13] Speaker 3: One day, the wife of a man from the school
[2:15] Speaker 3: of prophets cried out to Elisha, My husband is dead,
[2:21] Speaker 3: and you know that he feared the Lord. And now
[2:24] Speaker 3: the man that he owes money to is coming to
[2:26] Speaker 3: take my two sons as slaves. Alicia said, I think
[2:31] Speaker 3: I can help. What do you have in your house?
[2:35] Speaker 3: I really don't have anything, but I do have a
[2:37] Speaker 3: little oil. Alicia responded, Listen up. Go and get as
[2:42] Speaker 3: many jugs and bowls that you can get from your neighbors.
[2:46] Speaker 3: Then go inside and shut the door behind you and
[2:49] Speaker 3: your sons. Pour oil into each container until they are full.
[2:56] Speaker 3: She did everything that Alicia said. She gathered up the
[2:59] Speaker 3: jugs and bowls, shut the door behind her, and her
[3:03] Speaker 3: sons helped her fill up each container. When all of
[3:06] Speaker 3: the containers were full, the oil stopped. She told Alicia
[3:10] Speaker 3: everything that happened. Alicia said, Go, sell the oil, and
[3:16] Speaker 3: pay off your debt so you can keep your sons.
[3:20] Speaker 3: There was also a famine in the region of Gilgal.
[3:23] Speaker 3: The school of prophets was meeting to learn from Alicia.
[3:26] Speaker 3: Elisha knew that the prophets were hungry, so he told
[3:29] Speaker 3: his servant, Cook some stew for us in the large pot.
[3:33] Speaker 3: One of the prophets went out to the fields to
[3:35] Speaker 3: gather herbs and found a wild vine that had wild
[3:38] Speaker 3: gourds on it. He filled up his garments with these
[3:41] Speaker 3: wild gourds and put them in a pot of stew.
[3:45] Speaker 3: As the man began to eat the pot of stew,
[3:48] Speaker 3: they could tell that the gourds were poisonous.
[3:50] Speaker 2: Elisha, the stew is poisonous!
[3:53] Speaker 3: Alicia said, Get me some flour. He took the flour,
[3:59] Speaker 3: sprinkled it in the stew, and then the stew was
[4:02] Speaker 3: no longer poisonous. After a time, a man brought Alicia
[4:06] Speaker 3: twenty loaves of bread that were baked from the first
[4:09] Speaker 3: ripe grain. Alicia told the man, Give it to the people.
[4:14] Speaker 3: How can we give out twenty loaves to a hundred men?
[4:18] Speaker 3: His servant said, Elisha said again, Give it to the
[4:22] Speaker 3: people to eat. The Lord has told me that everyone
[4:25] Speaker 3: will eat and we will.
[4:26] Speaker 2: Even have leftovers.
[4:29] Speaker 3: His servants set the bread out and they all ate
[4:32] Speaker 3: and had leftovers. One time, the prophets were offering to
[4:37] Speaker 3: build a new meeting place for Elisha because the building
[4:40] Speaker 3: they were meeting at was too small. Elisha, let us
[4:44] Speaker 3: go to the Jordan and cut down some trees. Sure,
[4:48] Speaker 3: go ahead, Elisha said. Will you please come with us?
[4:52] Speaker 3: said one of the servants.
[4:54] Speaker 2: I will come.
[4:55] Speaker 3: While they were cutting down trees, the iron axe head
[4:59] Speaker 3: fell into the water. One of the servants cried out,
[5:03] Speaker 3: That wasn't even our axe head! Alicia asked. Where did
[5:07] Speaker 3: the axe head fall in? The servants showed Alicia where
[5:10] Speaker 3: the axe head fell in. He cut a stick, threw
[5:13] Speaker 3: it in the water, and the axe head rose to
[5:16] Speaker 3: the top of the water. The young servant then grabbed
[5:19] Speaker 3: the axe head and restored the axe.
[5:27] Speaker 1: Wow, that really was a hodgepodge of stories, wasn't it?
[5:31] Speaker 1: A widow, an oil, poisonous soup, magically multiplying bread, and
[5:37] Speaker 1: a floating axe. These stories might seem like they're just
[5:42] Speaker 1: about random miracles at first. But in the Bible, nothing
[5:46] Speaker 1: is random. Every story has a purpose. And you know
[5:51] Speaker 1: what's amazing? The hundreds of small stories that make up
[5:55] Speaker 1: the Bible all work together to tell one huge, beautiful story.
[6:01] Speaker 1: Kind of like a puzzle. Let's see if we can
[6:04] Speaker 1: put the puzzle of today's stories together. First, there was
[6:09] Speaker 1: a widow who needed help. God did a miracle by
[6:12] Speaker 1: filling a bunch of jars with exactly what she needed.
[6:17] Speaker 1: Oil to pay her debts and keep her family going. Second,
[6:22] Speaker 1: there was soup that got poisoned. If God hadn't stepped in,
[6:26] Speaker 1: everyone would have died. But he changed the very nature
[6:30] Speaker 1: of the soup. So instead of bringing death, it filled
[6:34] Speaker 1: everyone's hungry belly and brought life. Next, God fed over
[6:40] Speaker 1: 100 people with just 20 loaves of barley bread. And
[6:45] Speaker 1: even after they ate and were full, there was bread
[6:49] Speaker 1: left over. Last, a valuable tool sank deep, deep, deep
[6:55] Speaker 1: to the bottom of a river. But when God used
[6:58] Speaker 1: Elisha to rescue it, even something as heavy as iron
[7:02] Speaker 1: floated on top of the water, light as a feather.
[7:07] Speaker 1: Now before we try to solve the puzzle, I want
[7:09] Speaker 1: to ask you a question. When someone makes you laugh,
[7:13] Speaker 1: I mean really laugh. I mean a big, deep, rolling
[7:18] Speaker 1: on the floor, can hardly get a breath laugh. Does
[7:22] Speaker 1: it sound the same inside the house as it does
[7:25] Speaker 1: outside or is it different? And if you giggle, I
[7:29] Speaker 1: mean really giggle, is it the same in the kitchen
[7:34] Speaker 1: as it is in the bedroom or is it different?
[7:37] Speaker 1: It's the same. You sound like you wherever you are.
[7:41] Speaker 1: And as you get bigger, your laugh might get a
[7:44] Speaker 1: little deeper. Or you might laugh at different things. But
[7:47] Speaker 1: someone who loves you would recognize your laugh anywhere. Now,
[7:53] Speaker 1: what does your laugh have to do with soap and
[7:56] Speaker 1: a floating axe head? Well, the Bible says that God
[8:00] Speaker 1: is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He doesn't change
[8:05] Speaker 1: even when we see him in different places or different times.
[8:10] Speaker 1: God sounds like God all throughout the Bible. So when
[8:14] Speaker 1: Jesus went to a wedding where the bride and groom
[8:17] Speaker 1: needed help, he did a miracle by filling a bunch
[8:20] Speaker 1: of jars with exactly what they needed, wine to keep
[8:24] Speaker 1: the wedding going. And when the people were poisoned by
[8:27] Speaker 1: sickness and disease, Jesus changed the very nature of their
[8:32] Speaker 1: bodies to heal them. Instead of death, he filled them
[8:35] Speaker 1: with life. You can probably guess a story about the bread.
[8:38] Speaker 1: Jesus fed over 5,000 people with three fish and two loaves.
[8:44] Speaker 1: And just like in the story of Elisha, Jesus even
[8:48] Speaker 1: multiplied barley loaves. And finally, one night when Jesus' precious
[8:54] Speaker 1: friends thought they would sink deep, deep, deep to the
[8:57] Speaker 1: bottom of a lake, Jesus, as heavy as a man,
[9:01] Speaker 1: walked to them on top of the water as light
[9:04] Speaker 1: as a feather. He rescued them. Stories like this are
[9:09] Speaker 1: one way you know Jesus is God. Because God sounds
[9:13] Speaker 1: like God wherever he is in the Bible. And Jesus
[9:17] Speaker 1: sounds just like him. Jesus even said, I have not
[9:21] Speaker 1: come to get rid of the law, but to fulfill it.
[9:25] Speaker 1: He meant that when you put together the puzzle pieces
[9:28] Speaker 1: of all the Bible stories, a big, beautiful picture starts
[9:32] Speaker 1: to take shape. A picture of Him. Jesus is God.
[9:38] Speaker 1: And though He might look a little different in the
[9:40] Speaker 1: New Testament than the Old, when you love Him, you'll
[9:44] Speaker 1: recognize Him anywhere. I'm so happy you joined me today.
[9:48] Speaker 1: Come back next time to find out how a wealthy
[9:51] Speaker 1: old woman gave birth to to a son, nearly lost him,
[9:56] Speaker 1: then got him back again. Remember the Bible. is the
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