1Ki 17:1-21 - Commentary

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Text -- 1 Kings 17:1-21 (NET)

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Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory

17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” 17:2 The Lord told him: 17:3 “Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. 17:4 Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.” 17:5 So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. 17:6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream. 17:7 After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 17:8 The Lord told him, 17:9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.” 17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink.” 17:11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” 17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” 17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son. 17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’” 17:15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family. 17:16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah. 17:17 After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe. 17:18 She asked Elijah, “Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?” 17:19 He said to her, “Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed. 17:20 Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?” 17:21 He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Ahab son and successor of Omri, king of Israel,son of Kolaiah; a false prophet in the time of King Zedekiah

· Cherith a brook flowing from Bethel, south of Jericho and into the Jordan

· Elijah a prophet from the 9th century B.C.,a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead to Israel in King Ahab's time,son of Jeroham of Benjamin,a priest of the Harim clan who put away his heathen wife,a layman of the Bani Elam clan who put away his heathen wife

· Gilead a mountainous region east of the Jordan & north of the Arnon to Hermon,son of Machir son of Manasseh; founder of the clan of Gilead,father of Jephthah the judge,son of Michael of the tribe of Gad

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)

· Sidon residents of the town of Sidon

· Tishbe a town in Gilead

· Tishbite a resident of the town of Tishbe

· Zarephath a town on the Mediterranean coast near Sidon,a town in Phoenicia between Tyre and Sidon; modern Sarafand

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Verse Notes / Footnotes NET Notes

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:1 Heb “except at the command of my word.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:2 Heb “and the word of the Lord came to him, saying.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:4 Heb “to provide for you.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:5 Heb “So he went and did.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:7 Heb “And it came about at the end of days.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:8 Heb “And the word of the Lord came to him, saying.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:9 Heb “Look, I have commanded.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:10 Heb “a little.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:11 The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “in your hand.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:12 Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:13 Heb “according to your word.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:15 Heb “and she ate, she and he and her house [for] days.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:16 Heb “out, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:17 Heb “after these things.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 17:18 Heb “to make me remember.”

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