Luke 4:25

But I tell you in truth, that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout 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 do I say to you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country.

26and yet to none of them was Elijah sent, but to Sarepta in Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow.

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Cross References

Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

Mark 7:26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast out the demon from her daughter.

Romans 9:15For he saith to Moses, “On whom I have mercy, on him will I have mercy; and on whom I have compassion, on him will I have compassion.”

Ephesians 1:9having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

James 5:17Elijah was a man of like nature with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth 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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