Quotes About Food

for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.

Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

Soon his wife Jezebel came in and asked, “Why are you so sullen that you refuse to eat?”

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.”

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.

And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.

Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?

My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.

My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.