Luke 4:25

and of a truth I say to you, many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the sky was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on 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

24and He said, “Truly I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country;

26and to none of them was Elijah sent, but—to Sarepta of Sidon, to a woman, a widow;

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:1And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, says to Ahab, “YHWH, God of Israel, lives, before whom I have stood, there is not dew and rain these years, except according to my word.”

Isaiah 55:8“For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, || Nor your ways My ways,” || A declaration of YHWH,

Mark 7:26and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by nation—and was asking Him that He may cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

Romans 9:15For to Moses He says, “I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion”;

Ephesians 1:9having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

James 5:17Elijah was a similar-feeling man as us, and with prayer he prayed—not to rain, and it did not rain on the land 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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