📖WEB · 1 Kings 17:9
What does 1 Kings 17:9 mean?
"“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”"
— 1 Kings 17:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
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.”
As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but 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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