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English Standard Version

1 Kings 17:11

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

8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, 9 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you." 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, "Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink." 11 And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, "Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." 12 And she said, "As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die." 13 And Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord , the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.'" 15 And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by 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 in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17:27
And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Exodus 4:25
Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"
Exodus 12:48
If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord , let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
Joshua 5:3
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
2 Samuel 3:14
Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,

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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