1 Kings 17:6
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up because there was no rain in the land.
Cross References
Exodus 16:35And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
Judges 14:14And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days declare the riddle.
1 Kings 13:28And he went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.
1 Kings 19:8And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
Psalms 34:9O fear LORD, ye his sanctified, for there is no want to those who fear him.
Psalms 37:19They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 17:2-8
Elijah's First Prophecy; Elijah Fed by Ravens. ( b. c. 910.) 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 2 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed… Read the whole commentary →