1 Kings 17:3 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 17:3

“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

BSB

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ASV

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

KJV

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 17:2 (373)

From the typological point of view this symbol has two meanings. The stream [wadi] of Elijah prefigures that, at the fullness of time, the Messiah will come and will send the sinners to the stream that comes out of the sanctuary, just like the one …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

When the woman, the church, is driven into the wilderness, care it taken that she be fed and nourished there, time, times, and half a time, that is, three years and a half, which was just the time of Elijah's concealment.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Brook Cherith - Rather, “the torrent course,” one of the many which carry the winter rains from the highlands into that stream.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֵ֣ךְ	lekh	go	H1980 →
מִזֶּ֔ה	mi.Zeh	from here	H2088 →
וּפָנִ֥יתָ	u.fa.Ni.ta	and you will turn	H6437 →
לְּךָ֖	le.Kha	<for> yourself
קֵ֑דְמָה	Ke.de.mah	east -ward	H6924 →
וְנִסְתַּרְתָּ֙	ve.nis.tar.Ta	and you will hide yourself	H5641 →
בְּנַ֣חַל	be.Na.chal	at [the] wadi of	H5158 →
כְּרִ֔ית	ke.Rit	Kerith	H3747 →
אֲשֶׁ֖ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עַל־	'al-	[is] on	H5921 →
פְּנֵ֥י	pe.Nei	[the] face of	H6440 →
הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃	hai.yar.Den	the Jordan	H3383 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 31:20
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
leads to
- Psalms 27:5
  For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 32:7
  You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
- Psalms 91:1–4
  He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Job 5:21
  You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.
- Psalms 64:2–4
  Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
Through
Revelation 12:14
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times,…
leads to
- Exodus 19:4
  ‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
- Isaiah 40:31
  But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- Revelation 12:6
  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 1 Kings

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Kings