Let me bring a little 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 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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. |
Let me bring a little 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 set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.”
But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks, so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
“Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there; for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”
when Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them fifty to a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)
and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.