OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 9

1 Kings 17:9

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“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

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1 Kings 17:6–12

6

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

7

After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

8

The LORD’s word came to him, saying,

9
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“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

10

So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

11

As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

12

She said, “As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

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