Luke 4:25

Further, I can assure you that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months and a severe famine came over all the land;

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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

24Then He said: “Assuredly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.

26yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow woman in Sarepta, near Sidon.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenecian by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Romans 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”

Ephesians 1:9having made known to us the ‘secret’ of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him[S],

James 5:17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly for it not to 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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