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1 Kings 17:11

As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elijah;   Frugality;   Hospitality;   Minister, Christian;   Miracles;   Readings, Select;   Women;   Zarephath;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Zarephath;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Widow;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hospitality;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Haggai;   Zarephath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Feeding the Multitudes;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elijah;   Zarephath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elisha;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amittai;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As she went to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”
Hebrew Names Version
As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
King James Version
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
English Standard Version
And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, "Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."
New Century Version
As she was going to get his water, Elijah said, "Please bring me a piece of bread, too."
New English Translation
As she went to get it, he called out to her, "Please bring me a piece of bread."
New American Standard Bible
As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And as she was going to fet it, he called to her, and sayde, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsell of bread in thine hand.
Legacy Standard Bible
So she went to get it, and he called to her and said, "Please get me a piece of bread in your hand."
Contemporary English Version
As she left to get it, he asked, "Would you also please bring me a piece of bread?"
Complete Jewish Bible
As she was going to get it, he called after her, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."
Darby Translation
And she went to fetch [it], and he called to her and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
Easy-to-Read Version
As she was going to get the water, Elijah said, "Bring me a piece of bread too, please."
George Lamsa Translation
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said, Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
Good News Translation
And as she was going to get it, he called out, "And please bring me some bread, too."
Lexham English Bible
She went to fetch it, and he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."
Literal Translation
And she went to bring it . And he called to her and said, Please bring me a bit of bread in your hand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And as she was goinge to fetch it, he cried vnto her, & sayde: Brynge me a morsell of bred also in thine hande.
American Standard Version
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
Bible in Basic English
And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And as she was going to fet it, he cryed after her, and saide: bryng me I pray thee a morsell of bread also in thyne hand.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said: 'Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.'
King James Version (1611)
And as shee was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring mee, I pray thee, a morsell of bread in thine hand.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she went to fetch it; and Eliu cried after her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of the bread that is in thy hand.
English Revised Version
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
Berean Standard Bible
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne sche yede to bringe, he criede bihynde hir bac, and seide, Y biseche, bringe thou to me also a mussel of breed in thin hond.
Young's Literal Translation
And she goeth to bring [it], and he calleth unto her and saith, `Bring, I pray thee, to me a morsel of bread in thy hand.'
Update Bible Version
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of bread in your hand.
Webster's Bible Translation
And as she was going to bring [it], he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
World English Bible
As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
New King James Version
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."
New Living Translation
As she was going to get it, he called to her, "Bring me a bite of bread, too."
New Life Bible
As she was going to get it, he called to her, "I ask of you, bring me a piece of bread in your hand."
New Revised Standard
As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, "Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, as she went to fetch it, he called to her and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread, in thy hand.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
Revised Standard Version
And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, "Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."

Contextual Overview

8Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 9"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." 10So he set out and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks [for firewood]. He called out to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a jar, so that I may drink." 11As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."12But she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar. See, I am gathering a few sticks so that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it [as our last meal] and die." 13Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said. Just make me a little bread from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. 14"For this is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted nor shall the jar of oil be empty until the day that the LORD sends rain [again] on the face of the earth.'" 15She went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. 16The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as she was going: Genesis 24:18, Genesis 24:19, Matthew 10:42, Matthew 25:35-40, Hebrews 13:2

a morsel: 1 Kings 17:9, 1 Kings 18:4, Genesis 18:5

Cross-References

Genesis 17:25
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.
Genesis 17:27
All the men [servants] of his household, both those born in the house and those purchased with money from a foreigner, were circumcised along with him [as the sign of God's covenant with Abraham].
Exodus 4:25
Then Zipporah took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it at Moses' feet, and said, "Indeed you are a husband of blood to me!"
Exodus 12:48
"If a stranger living temporarily among you wishes to celebrate the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may participate and celebrate it like one that is born in the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.
Deuteronomy 10:16
"So circumcise [that is, remove sin from] your heart, and be stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate) no longer.
Joshua 5:3
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
2 Samuel 3:14
So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was betrothed for [the price of] a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
Acts 7:8
"And God gave Abraham a covenant [a formal agreement to be strictly observed] of [which] circumcision [was the sign]; and so [under these circumstances] Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac [became the father] of Jacob, and Jacob [became the father] of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal or confirmation of the righteousness which he had by faith while [he was still] uncircumcised—this was so that he would be the [spiritual] father of all who believe without being circumcised—so that righteousness would be credited to them,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as she was going to fetch it,.... For she made no difficulty of granting his request, but immediately set out to fetch him some water from the city, or some spring close by, or her own house; being very ready to do an hospitable act to a stranger, and especially to a good man, and a prophet, as she might perceive by his habit he was, as it seems by what follows:

and said, bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand; to eat before he drank; this he said still further to try her whether she was the person that was to sustain him, as well as in order to lead on to more discourse with her.


 
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