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Zarephath

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Named at 1 Kings 17:9 as “Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon”. At 17:8–9 the LORD’s word comes to Elijah (WEB “to him”), saying, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.” At 17:10 he arises and goes to Zarephath; and when he comes to the gate of the city, behold, a widow is there gathering sticks. Luke 4:25–26 names it, in what Jesus says, as in the land of Sidon: there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, yet Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

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1KI 17:8–16, engwebp
⁸The LORD’s word came to him, saying,
⁹“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
¹⁰So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
¹¹As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
¹²She said, “As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
¹³Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.
¹⁴For the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.’”
¹⁵She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days.
¹⁶The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.
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LUK 4:16–30, engwebp
¹⁶He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
¹⁷The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
¹⁹and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
²⁰He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
²¹He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
²²All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
²³He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”
²⁴He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
²⁵But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
²⁶Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
²⁷There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”
²⁸They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things.
²⁹They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
³⁰But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.
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OBA 1:15–21, engwebp
¹⁵For the day of the LORD is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
¹⁶For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
¹⁷But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
¹⁸The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
¹⁹Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
²⁰The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.
²¹Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be the LORD’s.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Zarephath” by name and 4 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Sarepta (confidence 1000 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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Sarepta
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
33.46423, 35.29514
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Narrated location (1) — The widow at the gate of Zarephath, and the jar of meal and the jar of oil that do not fail

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1 Kings 17:9 Open that verse

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

1 Kings 17:10 Open that verse

So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

Obadiah 1:20 Open that verse

The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

Luke 4:26 Open that verse

Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

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Entry: Zarephath (place-zarephath)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/zarephath
Current wording: Named at 1 Kings 17:9 as “Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon”. At 17:8–9 the LORD’s word comes to Elijah (WEB “to him”), saying, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.” At 17:10 he arises and goes to Zarephath; and when he comes to the gate of the city, behold, a widow is there gathering sticks. Luke 4:25–26 names it, in what Jesus says, as in the land of Sidon: there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, yet Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
Cited evidence: 1KI 17:8–16, engwebp / LUK 4:16–30, engwebp / OBA 1:15–21, engwebp
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