1 Kings 17:6
Crows bought bread and meat to him every morning and every evening, and he drank water from the brook.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
5So Elijah did what Yahweh commanded him to do. He went and camped alongside Kerith Brook.
7But after a while, the water in the brook dried up, because rain did not fall anywhere in the land.
Cross References
Exodus 16:35The Israeli people were able to eat manna every day for 40 years, until they came to the border of Canaan land.
Judges 14:14So he said, “From the thing that eats came something to eat; out of something strong came something sweet.” But for three days they could not tell him the meaning of the riddle.
1 Kings 13:28Then he rode on the donkey and found the prophet’s corpse on the road, and his donkey and the lion were still standing there alongside the corpse. But the lion had not eaten any of the flesh of the prophet and had not attacked the donkey.
1 Kings 19:8So he got up and ate and drank some more, and because of doing that, he got enough strength to enable him to travel for forty days and nights to Sinai Mountain, the mountain that was dedicated to God.
Psalms 34:9All you who belong to him, revere him! Those who do that will always have the things that they need [LIT].
Psalms 37:19They will survive when calamities occur; when there are famines, they will still have plenty to eat.
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 →