Luke 4:25

World English Bible (2000)

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to 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 didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2 : 1 It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth." 2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
  • Isa 55:8 : 8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
  • Mark 7:26-29 : 26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would 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 throw it to the dogs." 28 But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." 29 He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
  • Luke 10:21 : 21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."
  • Rom 9:15 : 15 For he said 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 indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
  • Eph 1:9 : 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

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  • Luke 4:26-27
    2 verses
    81%

    26Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

    27There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

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

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

    8The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

    9"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay 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, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."

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

    12She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

    13Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

    14For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"

    15She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.

    16The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.

    17It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."

    2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

    2The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines 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 didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

  • Luke 21:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

    3He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

    4for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."

    2The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • Mark 12:43
    69%

    43He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

  • Luke 7:12
    69%

    12Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were 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. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

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

    3Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.

    4You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full."

    5So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers 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 don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

  • 1 Kgs 18:41
    68%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:8
    68%

    8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

  • Luke 4:24
    68%

    24He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

  • 1 Tim 5:3
    67%

    3Honor widows who are widows indeed.

  • 2 Kgs 7:2
    67%

    2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."

  • 1 Tim 5:5
    67%

    5Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

  • 1 Kgs 18:13
    67%

    13Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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

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

    44It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, 'Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn't stop you.'"

    45It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

  • Mal 4:5
    67%

    5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

  • 1 Kgs 17:4
    67%

    4It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. 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 Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

  • Luke 2:37
    66%

    37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    66%

    28The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 1 Tim 5:9
    66%

    9Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

  • Luke 18:3
    66%

    3A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

  • Amos 4:7
    66%

    7"I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered.