1 Kings 17:9 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 17:9

“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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ASV

Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.

KJV

Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

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Commentary

4 voices

Ephrem the Syrian

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

God sends Elijah to a city of [Gentile] people in order to change his hardness into mercy. He who had given him power over rain and dew did not want to withdraw by force what he had granted him. He wanted, nevertheless, to help the …

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Zidon - To the jurisdiction of that city, which was inhabited by Gentiles. And God's providing for his prophet, first, by an unclean bird, and then by a Gentile, whom the Jews esteemed unclean, was a presage of the calling of the Gentiles, and rejection of the Jews. So Elijah was the first prophet of the Gentiles.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

The dependence of Zarephath (Sarepta) on Sidon is indicated in the inscriptions of Sennacherib, where it is mentioned as belonging to Luliya (Elulaeus), king of Sidon, and as submitting to the Assyrian monarch on Luliya’s flight from his capital. Elijah may have been sent to this place, so near the city of Jezebel’s father, as one which it was most unlikely that he would visit.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The prophet was sent to this widow, not merely for his own security, but on account of her faith, to strengthen and promote which he was directed to go to her rather than to many widows in Israel, who would have eagerly received him on the same privileged terms of exception from the grinding famine.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ק֣וּם	kum	arise	H6965 →
לֵ֤ךְ	lekh	go	H1980 →
צָרְפַ֙תָה֙	tza.re.Fa.tah	Zarephath towards	H6886 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לְצִיד֔וֹן	le.tzi.Don	[belongs] to Sidon	H6721 →
וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֖	ve.ya.shav.Ta	and you will dwell	H3427 →
שָׁ֑ם	Sham	there	H8033 →
הִנֵּ֨ה	hi.Neh	here!	H2009 →
צִוִּ֥יתִי	tzi.Vi.ti	I have commanded	H6680 →
שָׁ֛ם	sham	there	H8033 →
אִשָּׁ֥ה	'i.Shah	a woman	H802 →
אַלְמָנָ֖ה	'al.ma.Nah	a widow	H490 →
לְכַלְכְּלֶֽךָ׃	le.khal.ke.Le.kha	to supply you	H3557 →

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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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
2 Corinthians 4:7
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 3:5–6
  Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1
  Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- Ephesians 2:8–9
  For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- 1 Corinthians 1:28
  He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
- Colossians 2:3
  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Through
1 Kings 17:4
And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
leads to
- Psalms 147:9
  He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Job 38:41
  Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
- Matthew 4:4
  But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

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Elijah Raises the Son of the Widow of Zarephath — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PlaceSidonZarephathThe Sidonian town where a starving Gentile widow shared her last meal with Elijah and her jar of flour did not run out, the story…

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About 1 Kings