while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”
1 Kings 17:11 - English Standard Version 2016 And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. American Standard Version (1901) And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. Common English Bible She went to get some water. He then said to her, “Please get me a piece of bread.” Catholic Public Domain Version And as she was going to bring it, he called out after her, saying, "Bring me also, I beg you, a morsel of bread in your hand." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when she was going to fetch it he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. |
while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.”
And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”
“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”
and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.