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1 Kings 17:4
4You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food 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.
- 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.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)Drink from the brook and eat what the ravens bring you, for I have commanded them to bring you food.”
Context of 1 Kings 17:4
2Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3“Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.” 5So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
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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 at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”
- 1 Kings 19:5Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
- Numbers 20:8“Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”
- Job 34:29But if he remains silent, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he is over individual and nation alike,
- Job 38:8“Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- Psalms 33:8Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere him.
- Psalms 147:9He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call.
- Amos 9:3Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
- Matthew 4:4Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
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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