1 Kings 17:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Kgs 3:16 : 16 And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.
  • 2 Kgs 4:2-7 : 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. 4 Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones. 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.
  • 2 Kgs 4:42-44 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 7:1 : 1 Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.
  • 2 Kgs 9:6 : 6 And he got up and went into the house; then he put the holy oil on his head and said to him, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, I have made you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.
  • Matt 14:17-20 : 17 And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes. 18 And he said, Give them to me. 19 And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people. 20 And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.
  • Matt 15:36-38 : 36 And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people. 37 And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full. 38 And there were four thousand men who took food, together with women and children.
  • 1 Kgs 17:4 : 4 The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:15-17
    3 verses
    92%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:4-13
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    82%

    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?

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

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 4:2-7
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    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.

    4 Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
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    75%

    1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

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

  • 1 Kgs 18:41
    73%

    41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, Up! take food and drink, for there is a sound of much rain.

  • Deut 11:14
    73%

    14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

  • 2 Kgs 4:41
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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.

  • 2 Kgs 3:17
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    17 For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2
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    71%

    1 Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.

    2 So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 7:1-2
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    71%

    1 Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.

    2 Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

  • 2 Kgs 10:10
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    10 You may be certain that nothing which the Lord has said about the family of Ahab will be without effect; for the Lord has done what he said by his servant Elijah.

  • Joel 2:24
    71%

    24 And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    71%

    24 Then the woman said to Elijah, Now I am certain that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is true.

  • Luke 4:25
    70%

    25 Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
    70%

    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 18:35
    70%

    35 And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

  • 1 Kgs 18:12-13
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    12 And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

    13 Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?

  • 2 Kgs 4:43-44
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    70%

    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.

  • Jer 14:1
    69%

    1 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.

  • 1 Kgs 18:43-44
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    69%

    43 And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.

    44 And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.

  • Hab 3:17
    69%

    17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Isa 41:17
    69%

    17 The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

  • 1 Kgs 13:17
    69%

    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.

  • Jer 13:12
    69%

    12 So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine?

  • Hag 2:16
    68%

    16 How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

  • Joel 1:10
    68%

    10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
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    28 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 18:32
    68%

    32 Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.