Luke 4:25

And I tell you the truth, that there were many widows in the house of Israel, in the days of Elijah the prophet, when the heavens were closed up three years and six months, and there was a great famine in all the land:

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

24And he said to them: Verily I say to you, There is no prophet who is acceptable in his own city.

26but to no one of them was Elijah sent, except to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a widow woman.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26(the woman was a Gentile from Phenicia of Syria), and besought him, that he would expel the demon from her daughter.

Romans 9:15Behold, to Moses also he said: I will have pity, on whom I will have pity; and I will be merciful, to whom I will be merciful.

Ephesians 1:9And he hath made us know the mystery of his pleasure, which he had before determined in himself to accomplish,

James 5:17Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend upon the earth; and it descended not, 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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