Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” New Living Translation “Go and live in the village of Zarephath, near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to feed you.” English Standard Version “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” Berean Standard Bible “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” King James Bible Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. New King James Version “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” New American Standard Bible “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide food for you.” NASB 1995 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” NASB 1977 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” Legacy Standard Bible “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and remain there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.” Amplified Bible “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” Christian Standard Bible “Get up, go to Zarephath that belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman who is a widow to provide for you there.” Holman Christian Standard Bible Get up, go to Zarephath that belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman who is a widow to provide for you there.” American Standard Version Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee. Contemporary English Version "Go to the town of Zarephath in Sidon and live there. I've told a widow in that town to give you food." English Revised Version Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. GOD'S WORD® Translation "Get up, go to Zarephath (which belongs to Sidon), and stay there. I've commanded a widow there to feed you." Good News Translation "Now go to the town of Zarephath, near Sidon, and stay there. I have commanded a widow who lives there to feed you." International Standard Version "Get up, move to Zarephath in Sidon, and stay there. Look! I've commanded a widow to sustain you there." Majority Standard Bible ?Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.? NET Bible "Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you." New Heart English Bible "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Look, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." Webster's Bible Translation Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. World English Bible “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.” Literal Translations Literal Standard Version“Rise, go to Zarephath, that [belongs] to Sidon, and you have dwelt there; behold, I have commanded a widow woman to sustain you there.” Young's Literal Translation Rise, go to Zarephath, that is to Zidon, and thou hast dwelt there; lo, I have commanded there a widow woman to sustain thee.' Smith's Literal Translation Arise, go to Zarephath which is to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I commanded a widow woman to nourish thee there. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleArise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee. Catholic Public Domain Version “Rise up, and go to Zarephath of the Sidonians, and dwell there. For I have instructed a widowed woman there to feed you.” New American Bible Arise, go to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow there to feed you. New Revised Standard Version “Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there; for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleArise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Zidon, and dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated “Arise, go to Tsarpath of Tsaydan and dwell there; behold I have commanded a widow woman there to nourish you.” OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.' Brenton Septuagint Translation Arise, and go to Sarepta of the Sidonian land: behold, I have there commanded a widow-woman to maintain thee. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Widow of Zarephath8Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: 9“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 10So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”… Cross References Luke 4:25-26 But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land. / Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon. Matthew 15:21-28 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. / And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.” / But Jesus did not answer a word. So His disciples came and urged Him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” ... James 5:17-18 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. / Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops. Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism, / but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right. Genesis 12:1-3 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. / I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. / I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.” 2 Kings 4:8-37 One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat. / Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God. / Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.” ... Isaiah 61:1-2 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, / to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, John 4:9-10 “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) / Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” Romans 9:25-26 As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,” / and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” Hebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection. Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Psalm 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates. Jeremiah 49:11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.” Ezekiel 17:24 Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’” Malachi 3:10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure. Treasury of Scripture Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you. Zarephath Obadiah 1:20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. Luke 4:26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. Sarepta Matthew 15:21,22 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon… widow woman 1 Kings 17:4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. Judges 7:2,4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me… Romans 4:17-21 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were… Jump to Previous Abide Arise Belongeth Belongs Commanded Dwell Dwelt Feed Living-Place Maintain Once Provide Rise Sidon Supply Sustain Widow Zarephath Zar'ephath ZidonJump to Next Abide Arise Belongeth Belongs Commanded Dwell Dwelt Feed Living-Place Maintain Once Provide Rise Sidon Supply Sustain Widow Zarephath Zar'ephath Zidon1 Kings 17 1. Elijah, having prophesied against Ahab, 3. is sent to Cherith where the ravens feed him. 8. He is sent to the widow of Zarephath 17. He raises the widow's son 24. The woman believes him Arise The Hebrew word used here is "קוּם" (qum), which means to rise, stand up, or establish. This command from God to Elijah is not just a physical action but a call to readiness and obedience. In the biblical context, "arise" often signifies a divine commissioning or a call to action. It is a reminder that God’s servants must be prepared to move and act according to His will, trusting in His guidance and provision. Go to Zarephath Which belongs to Sidon And stay there Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew “Get up,ק֣וּם (qūm) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand go לֵ֤ךְ (lêḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk to Zarephath צָרְפַ֙תָה֙ (ṣā·rə·p̄a·ṯāh) Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 6886: Zarephath -- 'smelting place', a city South of Sidon of Sidon, לְצִיד֔וֹן (lə·ṣî·ḏō·wn) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 6721: Sidon -- a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast, also a son of Canaan and stay וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֖ (wə·yā·šaḇ·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry there. שָׁ֑ם (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither Behold, הִנֵּ֨ה (hin·nêh) Interjection Strong's 2009: Lo! behold! I have commanded צִוִּ֥יתִי (ṣiw·wî·ṯî) Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order a widow אַלְמָנָ֖ה (’al·mā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 490: A widow, a desolate place there שָׁ֛ם (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither to provide for you.” לְכַלְכְּלֶֽךָ׃ (lə·ḵal·kə·le·ḵā) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3557: To keep in, to measure, to maintain Links 1 Kings 17:9 NIV1 Kings 17:9 NLT 1 Kings 17:9 ESV 1 Kings 17:9 NASB 1 Kings 17:9 KJV 1 Kings 17:9 BibleApps.com 1 Kings 17:9 Biblia Paralela 1 Kings 17:9 Chinese Bible 1 Kings 17:9 French Bible 1 Kings 17:9 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Kings 17:9 Arise get you to Zarephath which belongs (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) |
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