Place
Zarephath
The Sidonian town where a starving Gentile widow shared her last meal with Elijah and her barrel of meal did not waste — cited by Jesus at Nazareth.
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Where it is
- Region
- Sidon
- Kind of place
- Town
Zarephath in Scripture
4 verses name it — all of them- 1 Kings 17:9Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.
- 1 Kings 17:10So 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, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
- Obadiah 1:20And the captives of this host of the children of Israel, that are among the Canaanites, shall possess even unto Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, that are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.
- Luke 4:26and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.