As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
1 Kings 17:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there, for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you. American Standard Version (1901) Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee. Common English Bible Get up and go to Zarephath near Sidon and stay there. I have ordered a widow there to take care of you. Catholic Public Domain Version "Rise up, and go to Zarephath of the Sidonians, and dwell there. For I have instructed a widowed woman there to feed you." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee. |
As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
You shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. He ate and drank and lay down again.
The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the towns of the Negeb.
yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.
The Lord said to Gideon, “The troops with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand. Israel would only take the credit away from me, saying, ‘My own hand has delivered me.’
Then the Lord said to Gideon, “The troops are still too many; take them down to the water, and I will sift them out for you there. When I say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go with you, and when I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”