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Luke 4:26

ElijahSidonZarephath
The stranger and outcast

24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

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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
Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.
KJV
But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
WEB
Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
ASV
and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
DARBY
and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of Sidonia, to a woman [that was] a widow.
BLB
And Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath of the Sidonians, to a woman, a widow.
ÅB
og til ingen av dem ble Elias sendt, men bare til en enke i Sarepta i Sidons land.
OTB
Likevel ble Elias ikke sendt til noen av dem, men til en enke i Sarepta i Sidons land.
B1930
og til ingen av dem blev Elias sendt, men bare til en enke i Sarepta i Sidons land.

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Cross references

  • 1 Kings 17:9–24

    Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

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  • Matthew 11:21

    Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

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  • Obadiah 1:20

    And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

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