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 tile torrent.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7But after some time the torrent was dried up, for it had not rained upon the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 16:35And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
Judges 14:14And he said to them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.
1 Kings 13:28And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the dead body, nor hurt the ass.
1 Kings 19:8And he arose, and ate, and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.
Psalms 34:9O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.
Psalms 37:19They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be filled :
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 →