Luke 4:25

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But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."
  • Jas 5:17 : 17 Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2 : 1 After many days, the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land." 2 So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. The famine in Samaria was severe.
  • Isa 55:8 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 'Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
  • Mark 7:26-29 : 26 This woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. She begged Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, because it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs." 28 She replied to Him, "Yes, Lord, but even the little dogs under the table eat the crumbs that fall from the children." 29 Then He said to her, "Because of this reply, you may go. The demon has left your daughter."
  • Luke 10:21 : 21 At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, 'I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to little ones. Yes, Father, for this was Your good pleasure.'
  • Rom 9:15 : 15 For he says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.'
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'
  • Eph 1:9 : 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ,
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In Him we have also obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

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  • Luke 4:26-27
    2 verses
    81%

    26Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.

    27And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.'

  • 1 Kgs 17:7-17
    11 verses
    76%

    7But after a while, the brook dried up because there was no rain in the land.

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

    9"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Look, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you."

    10So he arose and went to Zarephath. When he reached the city gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a vessel so I may drink."

    11As she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand as well."

    12But she replied, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked. I only have a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a couple of sticks to go and prepare it for myself and my son so we may eat it and then die."

    13Elijah said to her, "Do not be afraid. Go and do as you have said, but first make a small cake for me from what you have and bring it to me. Then make some for yourself and your son."

    14For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not run out, and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the earth.'

    15She went and did according to what Elijah said, and she, Elijah, and her household ate for many days.

    16The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run dry, as the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah had declared.

    17After this, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick. His illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1After many days, the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land."

    2So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. The famine in Samaria was severe.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    72%

    24Then the woman said to Elijah, 'Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.'

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, take your household, and go live in whatever place you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."

    2So the woman arose and acted according to the word of the man of God. She departed with her household and lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

  • Jas 5:17
    70%

    17Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

  • Luke 21:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2He also saw a poor widow putting in two small coins.

    3He said, 'Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.'

    4For they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she had to live on.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."

    2And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • Mark 12:43
    69%

    43Summoning his disciples, he said to them, 'Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box.

  • Luke 7:12
    69%

    12As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was with her.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-5
    5 verses
    68%

    1A certain woman, the wife of one of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. Now the creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves."

    2Elisha said to her, "What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" She replied, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of oil."

    3Then he said, "Go, borrow empty vessels from all your neighbors. Get as many as you can. Do not gather too few."

    4Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all these vessels, and as each one is filled, set it aside."

    5So she left him, shut the door behind her and her sons, and they kept bringing vessels to her while she poured the oil.

  • 1 Tim 5:16
    68%

    16If any believing man or woman has widows, let them help them and not let the church be burdened, so that it may assist those who are truly widows.

  • 1 Kgs 18:41
    68%

    41Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.

  • 2 Kgs 4:8
    68%

    8One day, Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he passed by, he would stop there to eat.

  • Luke 4:24
    68%

    24Truly I tell you,' He continued, 'no prophet is accepted in his hometown.'

  • 1 Tim 5:3
    67%

    3Honor widows who are truly widows.

  • 2 Kgs 7:2
    67%

    2The officer on whose arm the king was leaning replied to the man of God, "Even if the Lord were to open the floodgates of heaven, could this happen?" Elisha answered, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it."

  • 1 Tim 5:5
    67%

    5The widow who is truly alone and desolate has placed her hope in God and continues in prayers and petitions night and day.

  • 1 Kgs 18:13
    67%

    13Has it not been reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with bread and water.

  • 1 Kgs 18:43-45
    3 verses
    67%

    43Then he said to his servant, "Go and look toward the sea." So he went and looked and said, "There is nothing." Seven times Elijah told him, "Go back."

    44On the seventh time, the servant reported, "Behold, a small cloud, as small as a man’s hand, is rising from the sea." So Elijah said, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.'"

    45In a short while, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. Ahab mounted his chariot and rode to Jezreel.

  • 1 Kgs 17:4
    67%

    4"You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded ravens to provide for you there."

  • 1 Kgs 18:4
    66%

    4When Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets, hidden them in two caves in groups of fifty, and provided them with bread and water.

  • Luke 2:37
    66%

    37and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    66%

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

  • 1 Tim 5:9
    66%

    9A widow should be enrolled only if she is at least sixty years old and has been faithful to one husband,

  • Luke 18:3
    66%

    3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

  • Amos 4:7
    66%

    7I withheld the rain from you when there were still three months until harvest. I caused it to rain on one city but not on another; one field received rain, while another withered due to lack of it.