1 Kings 17:10
So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her,“Please give me a little water in a cup, so I can take a drink.”
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 24:17 : 17 Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said,“Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”
- John 4:7 : 7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.”
- 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
- Heb 11:37 : 37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
- Gen 21:15 : 15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- 1 Kgs 17:2-98 verses89%
2 The LORD’s message came to him:
3 “Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
4 Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”
5 So he carried out the LORD’s message; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.
7 After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
8 The LORD’s message came to him,
9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.”
- 1 Kgs 17:11-2010 verses87%
11 As she went to get it, he called out to her,“Please bring me a piece of bread.”
12 She said,“As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”
13 Elijah said to her,“Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make me a small cake and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.
14 For this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the LORD makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”
15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family.
16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Elijah.
17 After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”
19 He said to her,“Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.
20 Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”
- 2 Kgs 4:1-33 verses73%
1 Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying,“Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”
2 Elisha said to her,“What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered,“Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”
3 He said,“Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.
- Luke 4:25-262 verses72%
25 But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.
26 Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
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1 Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life,“You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the LORD has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
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17 Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said,“Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”
- 2 Kgs 4:5-84 verses71%
5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.
6 When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons,“Bring me another container.” But he answered her,“There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.
7 She went and told the prophet. He said,“Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”
8 Elisha Gives Life to a Boy One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.
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15 Elisha told him,“Ask her to come here.” So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.
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43 Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”
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25 So she went to visit the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi,“Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.
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7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.”
- 2 Kgs 4:22-232 verses70%
22 She called to her husband,“Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”
23 He said,“Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said,“Everything’s fine.”
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12 As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother(who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.
- 1 Kgs 21:17-182 verses70%
17 The LORD’S message came to Elijah the Tishbite:
18 “Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it.
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19 So the prophet went back with him. He ate food in his house and he drank water.
- 2 Kgs 4:37-382 verses69%
37 She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.
38 Elisha Makes a Meal Edible Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant,“Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets.”
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15 He then said to him,“Come home with me and eat something.”
- 1 Kgs 17:23-242 verses69%
23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said,“See, your son is alive!”
24 The woman said to Elijah,“Now I know that you are a prophet and that the LORD’s message really does come through you.”
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6 He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more.
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42 So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.
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2 So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab.Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
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19 He said to her,“Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.
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41 He said,“Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said,“Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.