1 Kings 17:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.””
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““Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Rise, go to Zarephath, that <FI>is<Fi> to Zidon, and thou hast dwelt there; lo, I have commanded there a widow woman to sustain thee.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Kings 17:9 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 7:2Then 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.’
- Judges 7:4Then 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.”
- 1 Kings 17:4And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
- 1 Kings 17:11And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”
- 1 Kings 19:6And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
- Obadiah 1:20And 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.
- Matthew 15:21Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
- Luke 4:26Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.
- Romans 4:17As 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.
- 2 Corinthians 4:7Now 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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