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1 Kings 17:9

SidonZarephath
Guidance and decisionsThe stranger and outcast

7 Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:

“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

10 So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

11 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
KJV
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
WEB
“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
ASV
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.
DARBY
Arise, go to Zarephath, which is by Zidon, and abide there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to maintain thee.
BLB
“Arise, go to Zarephath, which [is] unto Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded there a widow woman to provide for you.”
ÅB
Stå opp og gå til Sarepta, som hører til Sidon, og bli der! Jeg har befalt en enke der å forsørge deg.
OTB
"Stå opp, dra til Sarepta, som hører til Sidon, og bo der. Se, jeg har befalt en enke der å gi deg mat."
B1930
Stå op og gå til Sarepta, som hører til Sidon, og bli der! Jeg har befalt en enke der å forsørge dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Luke 4:26

    Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.

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  • Obadiah 1:20

    And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.

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  • 2 Corinthians 4:7

    Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

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  • 1 Kings 17:4

    And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

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  • Matthew 15:21–22

    Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

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  • Romans 4:17–21

    As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

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  • Judges 7:2

    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

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  • Judges 7:4

    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go. But if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”

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