1 Kings 17:10 meaning and explanation
So 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.”
1 Kings 17:10, Berean Standard Bible
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Elijah has just announced a drought to King Ahab, and God has sent him out of Israel to Zarephath, a town in Sidon, the homeland of Ahab's wife Jezebel and a center of Baal worship. At the city gate he meets a widow gathering sticks, one of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the ancient world.
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