1 Kings 17:12 meaning and explanation
But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
1 Kings 17:12, Berean Standard Bible
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The widow of Zarephath answers Elijah at the city gate. She is a Phoenician woman in Sidon, outside Israel, and the drought Elijah announced has reached her too.
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