2 Kings 7:1

7:1 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah ¹  of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”

2 Kings 7:16-18

7:16 Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah ²  of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the Lord had said they would. ³ 

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man ⁴  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. ⁵  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. ⁶  7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

Deuteronomy 8:8

8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Deuteronomy 32:14

32:14 butter from the herd

and milk from the flock,

along with the fat of lambs,

rams and goats of Bashan,

along with the best of the kernels of wheat;

and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

John 6:9

6:9 “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good ⁷  are these for so many people?”

John 6:13

6:13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves ⁸  left over by the people who had eaten.

¹ sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

² sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

³ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord.”

⁴ tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

⁶ tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

⁷ tn Grk “but what are these”; the word “good” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

⁸ sn Note that the fish mentioned previously (in John 6:9) are not emphasized here, only the five barley loaves. This is easy to understand, however, because the bread is of primary importance for the author in view of Jesus’ upcoming discourse on the Bread of Life.