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Staten Vertaling

1 Koningen 17:12

Maar zij zeide: Zo waarachtig als de HEERE, uw God, leeft, indien ik een koek heb, dan alleen een hand vol meels in de kruik, en een weinig olie in de fles! En zie ik heb een paar houten gelezen, en ik ga heen, en zal het voor mij en voor mijn zoon bereiden, dat wij het eten, en sterven.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barrel;   Blessing;   Bread;   Elijah;   Frugality;   Hospitality;   Minister, Christian;   Miracles;   Oil;   Poor;   Readings, Select;   Self-Denial;   Women;   Zarephath;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abundance-Want;   Barrel;   Bible Stories for Children;   Cakes;   Children;   Cruses;   Famine;   Home;   Human;   Instrumentalities, Weak;   Limitations, Human;   Limited Resources;   Oil;   Olive Oil;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Poverty;   Poverty-Riches;   Power;   Religion;   Small Things God Uses;   Stories for Children;   Weak;   Weakness-Power;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Oil;   Poor, the;   Self-Denial;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Zarephath;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Food;   Oil;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elijah;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Barrel;   Cake;   Cruse;   Oven;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cruse;   Oil;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baking;   Barrel;   Cooking and Heating;   Flour;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Oil;   Zarephath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Barrel;   Bread;   Haggai;   House;   Meals;   Potter, Pottery;   Zarephath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bread;   Cruse;   Feeding the Multitudes;   Numbers (2);   Oil ;   Oven ;   Waterpot ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Barrel;   Cruse;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elijah;   Zarephath;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Barrel;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Barrel;   Bread;   Cruse;   Elisha;   Fire;   Handful;   Meals;   Oil;   Potter;   Rain;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amittai;   Fire;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 9;  

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En zij zeide: Zo waarachtig als de Heer, uw God, leeft, ik heb niets dat gebakken is, alleen een handvol meel in het vat en een weinig olie in de kruik; en zie, ik heb een paar houten opgezameld, en ga voor mij en mijnen zoon wat bereiden, dat wij eten en dan sterven.
Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Maar zij zeide: Zo waar als de Heer, uw god, leeft, ik heb geen broodkoek meer, niets dan een handvol meel in het vat en een weinig olie in de kruik; en nu sprokkel ik een paar houten en ga te huis iets bereiden voor mij en mijn zoon; hebben wij dat gebruikt, dan moeten wij sterven.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As the Lord: 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Samuel 14:39, 1 Samuel 14:45, 1 Samuel 20:3, 1 Samuel 20:21, 1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 26:10, 2 Samuel 15:21, Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 5:2

but an handful: 2 Kings 4:2-7, Matthew 15:33, Matthew 15:34

that we may eat it: Genesis 21:16, Jeremiah 14:18, Lamentations 4:9, Ezekiel 12:18, Ezekiel 12:19, Joel 1:15, Joel 1:16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:16 - in the field 1 Kings 18:10 - the Lord Job 6:7 - as my sorrowful meat Job 21:25 - never Ecclesiastes 5:17 - he eateth Haggai 1:6 - eat Matthew 4:4 - but Matthew 14:20 - were Luke 7:12 - the only

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth,.... Which shows her to be a good woman, swearing by the living God, and him only, and that she took Elijah to be a good man, and a prophet of the Lord:

I have not a cake; greater or less, not a morsel of bread in the house:

but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; these separate and unmixed, and not made into a cake, and dressed as she intended to do with them:

and, behold, I am gathering two sticks; or a few, which would be sufficient to bake such a quantity as her meal and oil would make; she speaks by the figure "meiosis", which expresses less than what is meant, as Ben Melech observes:

that I may go in and dress it for me, and my son, that we may eat it, and die; having nothing more left, and no expectation of any elsewhere, and the famine strong in the land; so that she could look for nothing but death after this was eaten.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the Lord thy God liveth - The words do not prove that the woman was an Israelite, or a worshipper of the true God; any Phoenician, recognizing in Elijah’s appearance the garb and manner of a Jehovistic prophet, might have thus addressed him: Baal-worshippers would have admitted Yahweh to be “a” living God. The woman does not say “as the Lord my God liveth.”

That we may eat it and die - Phoenicia always depended for its cereal supplies on the harvests of Palestine (1 Kings 5:9 note); and it is evident that the famine was afflicting the Phoenicians at this time no less than the Israelites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 17:12. A handful of meal in a barrel — The word כד cad is to be understood as implying an earthen jar; not a wooden vessel, or barrel of any kind. In the East they preserve their corn and meal in such vessels; without which precaution the insects would destroy them. Travellers in Asiatic countries abound with observations of this kind.

The word cruse, צפחת tsappachath, says Jarchi, signifies what in our tongue is expressed by bouteille, a bottle. Jarchi was a French rabbin.


 
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