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1 Kings 17:6

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

In Context

5So he went and did according to the LORD’s word, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.

7After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:35The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

Judges 14:14He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.

1 Kings 13:28He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body nor mauled the donkey.

1 Kings 19:8He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

Psalms 34:9Oh fear the LORD, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

Psalms 37:19They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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 →

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