Luke 4:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But Elijah was not sent to one of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:9-9 : 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. 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. 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? 21 And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again. 22 And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life. 23 And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living. 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.
  • Matt 11:21 : 21 Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.

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    24 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.

    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;

  • 1 Kgs 17:8-19
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    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.

    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.

  • Luke 4:27
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    27 And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian.

  • Luke 7:12-13
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    12 Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.

    13 And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

  • 1 Kgs 17:23-24
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    23 And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 4:25
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    25 So she went, and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is the Shunammite;

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
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    2 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

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    24 But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
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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.

  • 2 Kgs 2:4
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  • 2 Kgs 1:3-4
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    4 Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.

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

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  • 2 Kgs 4:12-15
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    12 And he said to Gehazi, his servant, Send for this Shunammite. So in answer to his voice she came before him.

    13 And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

    14 So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

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

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    2 Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.

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    4 And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.

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    28 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

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  • 2 Kgs 4:8-9
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    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.

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    51 And when he came to the house he did not let any man go in with him, but only Peter and John and James, and the father of the girl and her mother.