Luke 4:25

Now I tell you of a certainty, that there were many widows in the days of Elias, in Israel, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, so that a grievous famine was upon all the land.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

24But he said, Verily, I say unto you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

26And unto none of them was Elias sent, but unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a widow woman.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by birth, and she entreated him that the devil might be cast out of her daughter.

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

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

James 5:17Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during 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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