Luke 4:25

And I tell you, in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine was on all the land:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

In Context

24And he said: Verily I say to you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

26and to no one of them was Elijah sent, but to Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a woman that was a widow.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26(the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation,) and she besought him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Romans 9:15For he says to Moses: I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy; and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.

Ephesians 1:9by making known to us the mystery of his will according to his good purpose which he had before established in himself,

James 5:17Elijah was a man with passions like our own; and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:15-31

Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth; Christ Driven from Nazareth. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he… Read the whole commentary →

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