Luke 4:25

There were, doubtless, many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, and a severe famine prevailed throughout the country;

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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

24I tell you,” he continued, “that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

26and yet it was not to one of them that Elijah was sent, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidonia.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26the woman was a foreigner, from Syrian Phoenicia – and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Romans 9:15For his words to Moses are – ‘I will take pity on whom I take pity, and be merciful to whom I am merciful.’

Ephesians 1:9when he made known to us his hidden purpose. And it also accords with the goodwill which God purposed to exhibit in Christ,

James 5:17Elijah was only human like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell on the land for three and a half years.

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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