1 Kings 17:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread.

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  • Gen 18:5 : 5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.
  • Gen 24:18-19 : 18 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink. 19 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.
  • 1 Kgs 17:9 : 9 Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.
  • 1 Kgs 18:4 : 4 For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)
  • Matt 10:42 : 42 And whoever gives to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will not go without his reward.
  • Matt 25:35-40 : 35 For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in; 36 I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me. 37 Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you? 38 And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you? 39 And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you? 40 And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 17:4-10
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    87%

    4 The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.

    5 So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

    6 And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.

    7 Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.

    8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

    9 Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.

    10 So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?

  • 1 Kgs 17:12-20
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    12 Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

    13 And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

    14 For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth.

    15 So she went and did as Elijah said; and she and he and her family had food for a long time.

    16 The store of meal did not come to an end, and the bottle was never without oil, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah.

    17 Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

    18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?

    19 And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.

    20 And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

  • 1 Kgs 13:15
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    15 Then he said to him, Come back to the house with me and have a meal.

  • 2 Kgs 4:41-44
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    41 But he said, Get some meal. And he put it into the pot, and said, Now give it to the people so that they may have food. And there was nothing bad in the pot.

    42 Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

    43 But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.

    44 So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.

  • Gen 18:5-6
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    5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

    6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

  • 1 Sam 28:22-23
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    22 So now, give ear to the voice of your servant, and let me give you a little bread; and take some food to give you strength when you go on your way.

    23 But he would not, saying, I have no desire for food. But his servants, together with the woman, made him take food, and he gave way to them. So he got up from the earth, and took his seat on the bed.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-3
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    1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

    2 Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.

    3 Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.

  • 2 Kgs 4:15
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    15 Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.

  • Gen 24:17
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    17 And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
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    1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.

  • 1 Kgs 14:3
    72%

    3 And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

  • 2 Kgs 4:22-23
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    22 And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.

    23 And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
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    36 And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.

    37 And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out.

  • 2 Kgs 4:5-8
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    5 So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.

    6 And when all the vessels were full, she said to her son, Get me another vessel. And he said, There are no more. And the flow of oil was stopped.

    7 So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.

    8 Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.

  • 1 Kgs 13:19
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    19 So he went back with him, and had a meal in his house and a drink of water.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
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    28 And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

  • 1 Kgs 17:2
    71%

    2 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 13:17
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    17 For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.

  • Ruth 3:17
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    17 And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.

  • 1 Sam 10:4
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    4 They will say, Peace be with you, and will give you two cakes of bread, which you are to take from them.

  • 1 Kgs 21:5
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    5 But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food?

  • 2 Kgs 6:26
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    26 And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.

  • Ruth 3:15
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    15 And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.