1 Kings 17:9
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."

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.”

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."

New American Bible
Arise, go to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow there to feed you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.

Zarephath

Obadiah 1:20 And they that are toward the south, shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they shall possess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Galaad.

Luke 4:26 And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman.

Sarepta

Matthew 15:21,22 And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coast of Tyre and Sidon. . . .

widow woman

1 Kings 17:4 And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Judges 7:2,4 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength. . . .

Romans 4:17-21 (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

Context
The Widow of Zarephath
8Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying: 9Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.10He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.…
Cross References
Luke 4:26
And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman.

1 Kings 17:4
And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

1 Kings 17:8
Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

Obadiah 1:20
And they that are toward the south, shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they shall possess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Galaad.

1 Kings 17:8
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