Luke 4:25

Geneva Bible (1560)

But I tell you of a trueth, many widowes were in Israel in the dayes of Elias, when heauen was shut three yeres and sixe moneths, when great famine was throughout all the land:

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  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Eliiah the Tishbite one of the inhabitats of Gilead sayde vnto Ahab, As the Lorde God of Israel liueth, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dewe nor rayne these yeeres, but according to my worde.
  • Jas 5:17 : 17 Helias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rayne, and it rayned not on the earth for three yeeres and sixe moneths.
  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2 : 1 After many dayes, the worde of the Lorde came to Eliiah, in the third yeere, saying, Goe, shewe thy selfe vnto Ahab, and I will sende rayne vpon the earth. 2 And Eliiah went to shew himselfe vnto Ahab, and there was a great famine in Samaria.
  • Isa 55:8 : 8 For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth the Lord.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Is it not lawfull for me to do as I will with mine owne? Is thine eye euil, because I am good?
  • Mark 7:26-29 : 26 (And the woman was a Greeke, a Syrophenissian by nation) and she besought him that he would cast out the deuill out of her daughter. 27 But Iesus saide vnto her, Let the children first be fedde: for it is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it vnto whelpes. 28 Then shee answered, and saide vnto him, Trueth, Lord: yet in deede the whelpes eate vnder the table of the childrens crommes. 29 Then he said vnto her, For this saying goe thy way: the deuil is gone out of thy daughter.
  • Luke 10:21 : 21 That same houre reioyced Iesus in the spirit, and said, I confesse vnto thee, Father, Lord of heauen & earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and vnderstanding, and hast reueiled them to babes: euen so, Father, because it so pleased thee.
  • Rom 9:15 : 15 For he saith to Moses, I wil haue mercy on him, to whom I wil shew mercie: and wil haue compassion on him, on who I wil haue copassion.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But, O man, who art thou which pleadest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
  • Eph 1:9 : 9 And hath opened vnto vs the mysterie of his will according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in him,
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom also we are chosen when we were predestinate according to ye purpose of him, which worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Luke 4:26-27
    2 verses
    81%

    26But vnto none of them was Elias sent, saue into Sarepta, a citie of Sidon, vnto a certaine widowe.

    27Also many lepers were in Israel, in the time of Eliseus the Prophet: yet none of them was made cleane, sauing Naaman the Syrian.

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

    7And after a while the riuer dryed vp, because there fell no rayne vpon the earth.

    8And the worde of the Lord came vnto him, saying,

    9Vp, & get thee to Zarephath, which is in Zidon, and remaine there: beholde, I haue commanded a widow there to sustaine thee.

    10So he arose, & went to Zarephath: & when he came to the gate of the citie, beholde, the widowe was there gathering stickes: and he called her, and sayde, Bring me, I pray thee, a litle water in a vessel, that I may drinke.

    11And as she was going to fet it, he called to her, and sayde, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsell of bread in thine hand.

    12And shee sayde, As the Lorde thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but euen an handfull of meale in a barrel, and a litle oyle in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering a fewe stickes for to go in, and dresse it for me and my sonne, that we may eate it, and dye.

    13And Eliiah said vnto her, Feare not, come, do as thou hast sayd, but make me thereof a litle cake first of all, and bring it vnto mee, and afterward make for thee, and thy sonne.

    14For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The meale in the barrel shall not be wasted, neither shal the oyle in the cruse be diminished, vnto the time that the Lord send rayne vpon the earth.

    15So she went, and did as Eliiah sayd, and she did eate: so did he and her house for a certaine time.

    16The barrell of the meale wasted not, nor the oyle was spent out of the cruse, according to the worde of the Lorde, which he spake by the hand of Eliiah.

    17And after these things, the sonne of the wife of the house fell sicke, and his sicknesse was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1After many dayes, the worde of the Lorde came to Eliiah, in the third yeere, saying, Goe, shewe thy selfe vnto Ahab, and I will sende rayne vpon the earth.

    2And Eliiah went to shew himselfe vnto Ahab, and there was a great famine in Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    72%

    24And the woman saide vnto Eliiah, Now I knowe that thou art a man of God, and that the worde of the Lord in thy mouth is true.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Then spake Elisha vnto the woman, whose sonne he had restored to life, saying, Vp, and goe, thou, and thine house, and soiourne where thou canst soiourne: for the Lorde hath called for a famine, and it commeth also vpon the land seuen yeeres.

    2And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God, and went both shee and her housholde and soiourned in the lande of the Philistims seuen yeeres.

  • Jas 5:17
    70%

    17Helias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rayne, and it rayned not on the earth for three yeeres and sixe moneths.

  • Luke 21:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2And he sawe also a certaine poore widowe which cast in thither two mites:

    3And he sayd, Of a trueth I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast in more then they all.

    4For they all haue of their superfluitie cast into the offerings of God: but she of her penurie hath cast in all the liuing that she had.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1And Eliiah the Tishbite one of the inhabitats of Gilead sayde vnto Ahab, As the Lorde God of Israel liueth, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dewe nor rayne these yeeres, but according to my worde.

    2And the worde of the Lorde came vnto him, saying,

  • Mark 12:43
    69%

    43Then he called vnto him his disciples, and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.

  • Luke 7:12
    69%

    12Nowe when hee came neere to the gate of the citie, behold, there was a dead man caried out, who was the onely begotten sonne of his mother, which was a widowe, and much people of the citie was with her.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-5
    5 verses
    68%

    1And one of the wiues of the sonnes of the Prophets cryed vnto Elisha, saying, Thy seruant mine husbande is dead, and thou knowest, that thy seruant did feare the Lord: and the creditour is come to take my two sonnes to bee his bondmen.

    2Then Elisha saide vnto her, What shall I do for thee? tell mee, what hast thou at home? And she sayd, Thine handmayd hath nothing at home, saue a pitcher of oyle.

    3And he sayde, Goe, and borowe thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, emptie vessels, and spare not.

    4And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the doore vpon thee and vpon thy sonnes, and powre out into all those vessels, & set aside those that are full.

    5So shee departed from him, and shut the doore vpon her, and vpon her sonnes; they brought to her, and she powred out.

  • 1 Tim 5:16
    68%

    16If any faithfull man, or faithfull woman haue widowes, let them minister vnto them, and let not the Church bee charged, that there may bee sufficient for them that are widowes in deede.

  • 1 Kgs 18:41
    68%

    41And Eliiah sayde vnto Ahab, Get thee vp, eate and drinke, for there is a sound of much rayne.

  • 2 Kgs 4:8
    68%

    8And on a time Elisha came to Shunem, and there a woman of great estimation constrained him to eate bread: and as he passed by, he turned in thither to eate bread.

  • Luke 4:24
    68%

    24And he saide, Verely I say vnto you, No Prophet is accepted in his owne countrey.

  • 1 Tim 5:3
    67%

    3Honour widowes, which are widowes in deede.

  • 2 Kgs 7:2
    67%

    2Then a prince, on whose hande the King leaned, answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, could this thing come to passe? And he said, Beholde, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.

  • 1 Tim 5:5
    67%

    5And shee that is a widowe in deede and left alone, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and praiers night and day.

  • 1 Kgs 18:13
    67%

    13Was it not tolde my lord, what I did when Iezebel slew the Prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundreth men of the Lordes Prophets by fifties in a caue, and fed them with bread & water?

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

    43And sayde to his seruant, Goe vp now and looke towarde the way of the Sea; he went vp, and looked, and sayde, There is nothing. Againe he sayd, Goe againe seuen times.

    44And at the seuenth time he sayd, Behold, there ariseth a litle cloude out of the sea like a mans hand. Then he sayd, Vp, and say vnto Ahab, Make readie thy charet, and get thee downe, that the raine stay thee not.

    45And in the meane while the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, and there was a great rayne. Then Ahab went vp and came to Izreel.

  • Mal 4:5
    67%

    5Beholde, I will sende you Eliiah the Prophet before the comming of the great and fearefull day of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 17:4
    67%

    4And thou shalt drinke of the riuer: and I haue comanded the rauens to feede thee there.

  • 1 Kgs 18:4
    66%

    4For when Iezebel destroyed the Prophets of the Lorde, Obadiah tooke an hundreth Prophets, and hid them, by fiftie in a caue, and he fed them with bread and water.)

  • Luke 2:37
    66%

    37And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings & prayers, night and day.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    66%

    28And the worde of the Lord came to Eliiah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 1 Tim 5:9
    66%

    9Let not a widow be taken into the number vnder three score yeere olde, that hath beene the wife of one husband,

  • Luke 18:3
    66%

    3And there was a widowe in that citie, which came vnto him, saying, Doe mee iustice against mine aduersarie.

  • Amos 4:7
    66%

    7And also I haue withholden the raine from you, when there were yet three moneths to the haruest, and I caused it to raine vpon one citie, & haue not caused it to raine vpo another citie: one piece was rained vpon, and the piece whereupon it rained not, withered.