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1 Kings 17:4
4You will drink water from the stream. I have also commanded the ravens to feed you there.’
1 Kings 17:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
- New International Version (NIV)You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."
- New King James Version (NKJV)And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
Context of 1 Kings 17:4
2Then the Lord told Elijah, 3‘Leave here! Go to the east. Hide in the Kerith valley, east of the Jordan River. You will drink water from the stream. I have also commanded the ravens to feed you there.’ 5Elijah obeyed the Lord's message. He went to live in the Kerith valley, near the Jordan River. 6The ravens brought him bread and meat to eat, every morning and every evening. He drank water from the stream.
Read all of 1 Kings 171 Kings 17:4 word by word
וְהָיָ֖ה מֵהַנַּ֣חַל תִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה וְאֶת־הָעֹרְבִ֣ים צִוִּ֔יתִי לְכַלְכֶּלְךָ֖ שָֽׁם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Kings 17:4
- 1 Kings 17:9‘Go now to Zarephath in the region of Sidon. Go and live there. I have told a widow who lives there that she must give you food to eat.’
- 1 Kings 19:5Then he lay down under the tree and he slept. Suddenly, an angel came and touched him. The angel said, ‘Get up and eat something.’
- Numbers 20:8‘Get the stick. Take your brother Aaron with you and go to the whole group of the Israelites. Then speak to that rock that you can all see. Water will pour out from it. Then the people and their animals can drink it.’
- Job 34:29But if God decides to do nothing, no one can say that he is wrong. If he hides himself, no one can see him. But he still rules over people and over nations.
- Job 38:8When the sea poured out of the ground, I decided where its borders should be. I kept the water in its right place.
- Psalms 33:8Everyone who lives on the earth should respect the Lord. They should bend down to worship him.
- Psalms 147:9He gives food for the animals to eat. He feeds the young ravens when they cry.
- Amos 9:3They might try to hide on the top of Mount Carmel. But I will find them and I will take them from there. They might try to hide from me deep down in the sea. But I will command the great sea snake to bite them.
- Matthew 4:4But Jesus replied, ‘No! The Bible says that food alone cannot cause people to live. They need to hear every word that God speaks. That is what gives them true life.’
Commentaries on 1 Kings 17:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4I have commanded the ravens to feed thee - Thou shalt not lack the necessaries of life; thou shalt be supplied by an especial providence. See more on this subject at the end of the chapter, 1 Kings 17:24; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4The ravens - This is the translation of most of the ancient versions; others, omitting the points, which are generally allowed to have no authority, read “Arabians;” others, retaining the present pointing, translate either “merchants” (compare the original of Ezekiel 27:9, Ezekiel 27:27), or “Orbites.” Jerome took it in this last sense, and so does the Arabic Version.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-7Kerith Brook was a safe place for Elijah during the drought God caused (see 1 Kings 18:10). The food and water there showed Elijah that God was protecting him. When the water source dried up, Elijah had to move to a new place.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-71Ki 17:1-7. Elijah, Prophesying against Ahab, Is Sent to Cherith. 1. Elijah the Tishbite--This prophet is introduced as abruptly as Melchisedek--his birth, parents, and call to the prophetic office being alike unrecorded. He is supposed to be called the Tishbite from Tisbeh, a place east of Jordan. who was of the inhabitants of Gilead--or residents of Gilead, implying that he was not an Israelite, but an Ishmaelite, as Michaelis conjectures, for there…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Kings 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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