Luke 4:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine swept throughout all the land;

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  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain for these years, except by my word.
  • Jas 5:17 : 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2 : 1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. 2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a severe famine in Samaria.
  • Isa 55:8 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Mark 7:26-29 : 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth; and she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said to her, Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs. 28 And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs. 29 And he said to her, For this saying, go your way; the demon has left your daughter.
  • Luke 10:21 : 21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them to babes: even so, Father, for so it seemed good in your sight.
  • Rom 9:15 : 15 For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?
  • Eph 1:9 : 9 Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself:
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will:

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  • Luke 4:26-27
    2 verses
    81%

    26but to none of them was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath, a city of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

    27And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.

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

    7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

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

    9Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.

    10So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please, bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

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

    12And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I do not have a cake, but only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

    13And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you have said: but make a little cake for me first, and bring it to me, and afterward, make some for you and your son.

    14For thus says the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, nor shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth.

    15And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her household, ate many days.

    16And the barrel of meal did not waste, nor did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Elijah.

    17And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

    2And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a severe famine in Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    72%

    24And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this 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%

    1Then Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go you and your household, and stay wherever you can stay: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land for seven years."

    2And the woman arose, and did according to the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and stayed in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

  • Jas 5:17
    70%

    17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

  • Luke 21:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2And he also saw a certain poor widow casting in there two small coins.

    3And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all of them:

    4For all these have out of their abundance cast into the offerings of God; but she, out of her poverty, has cast in all the living that she had.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1And Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain for these years, except by my word.

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

  • Mark 12:43
    69%

    43So he called his disciples to him and said to them, 'Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;

  • Luke 7:12
    69%

    12Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and a large crowd of the city was with her.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-5
    5 verses
    68%

    1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves.

    2And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house? And she said, Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a pot of oil.

    3Then he said, Go, borrow vessels abroad from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

    4And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all those vessels, and you shall set aside that which is full.

    5So she went from him, and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.

  • 1 Tim 5:16
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 18:41
    68%

    41And Elijah said to Ahab, Get up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

  • 2 Kgs 4:8
    68%

    8And it happened one day, that Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

  • Luke 4:24
    68%

    24And he said, Truly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.

  • 1 Tim 5:3
    67%

    3Honor widows who are truly widows.

  • 2 Kgs 7:2
    67%

    2Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.

  • 1 Tim 5:5
    67%

    5Now she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

  • 1 Kgs 18:13
    67%

    13Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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

    43And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.

    44And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, a little cloud arises out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Prepare your chariot, and get down, that the rain does not stop you.

    45And it came to pass in the meantime, that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

  • Mal 4:5
    67%

    5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 17:4
    67%

    4And it will be that you shall drink from the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.

  • 1 Kgs 18:4
    66%

    4For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

  • Luke 2:37
    66%

    37And she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    66%

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

  • 1 Tim 5:9
    66%

    9Do not let a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

  • Luke 18:3
    66%

    3And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary.

  • Amos 4:7
    66%

    7And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece where it did not rain withered.