Luke 4:25

But in truth I tell you that there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, and a great famine came upon all the land.

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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

24But he said, “Truly I say to you, no prophet is received in his own hometown.

26But Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath in Sidon, to a widow living there.

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:1Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there will not be dew or rain these years unless I say so.”

Isaiah 55:8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1

Mark 7:26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by descent. She begged him to cast out the demon from her daughter.

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

Ephesians 1:9God made known to us the hidden purpose of his will, according to what pleased him, and which he demonstrated in Christ,

James 5:17Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain in 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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