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Literal Standard Version

1 Kings 17:8

and the word of YHWH is to him, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elijah;   Minister, Christian;   Prophecy;   Readings, Select;   Women;   Zarephath;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the word of the Lord came to him:
Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to him, saying,
King James Version
And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
English Standard Version
Then the word of the Lord came to him,
New Century Version
Then the Lord spoke his word to Elijah,
New English Translation
The Lord told him,
Amplified Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the worde of the Lord came vnto him, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Elijah,
Complete Jewish Bible
Then this word of Adonai came to him:
Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came to him saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord said to Elijah,
George Lamsa Translation
And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
Good News Translation
Then the Lord said to Elijah,
Lexham English Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah came to him, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then came ye worde of ye LORDE vnto him, and sayde:
American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying,
Bible in Basic English
Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the word of the Lorde came vnto him, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the word of the Lord came vnto him, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came to Eliu, saying,
English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the word of the Lord was maad to hym, and seide,
Young's Literal Translation
and the word of Jehovah is unto him, saying,
Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
New King James Version
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Elijah,
New Life Bible
Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
New Revised Standard
Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh unto him, saying -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
Revised Standard Version
Then the word of the LORD came to him,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

Contextual Overview

8and the word of YHWH is to him, saying,9"Rise, go to Zarephath, that [belongs] to Sidon, and you have dwelt there; behold, I have commanded a widow woman to sustain you there." 10And he rises, and goes to Zarephath, and comes to the opening of the city, and behold, there [is] a widow woman gathering sticks, and he calls to her and says, "Please bring a little water to me in a vessel, and I drink." 11And she goes to bring [it], and he calls to her and says, "Please bring a morsel of bread to me in your hand." 12And she says, "Your God YHWH lives, I do not have a cake, but the fullness of the hand of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a dish; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, and have gone in and prepared it for myself, and for my son, and we have eaten it—and died." 13And Elijah says to her, "Do not fear, go, do according to your word, only make a little cake for me there, in the first place, and you have brought [it] out to me; and for you and for your son make [it] last; 14for thus said YHWH, God of Israel: The pitcher of meal is not consumed, and the dish of oil is not lacking, until the day of YHWH's giving a shower on the face of the ground." 15And she goes, and does according to the word of Elijah, and she eats, she and he and her household [for many] days; 16the pitcher of meal was not consumed, and the dish of oil did not lack, according to the word of YHWH that He spoke by the hand of Elijah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the word: 1 Kings 17:2, Genesis 22:14, Isaiah 41:17, Hebrews 13:6

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.
Genesis 13:17
rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to you I give it."
Genesis 17:7
And I have established My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to become God to you, and to your seed after you;
Genesis 17:16
and I have blessed her, and have also given to you a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she has become nations—kings of peoples are from her."
Genesis 17:17
And Abraham falls on his face, and laughs, and says in his heart, "Is one born to the son of one hundred years? Or does Sarah—daughter of ninety years—bear?"
Genesis 17:21
and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah does bear to you at this appointed time in the next year";
Genesis 23:4
"A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me."
Genesis 28:4
and He gives to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, to cause you to possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham."
Genesis 48:4
and says to me, Behold, I am making you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and given you for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to your seed after you, a continuous possession.
Exodus 6:7
and have taken you to Myself for a people, and I have been to you for God, and you have known that I [am] your God YHWH, who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the word of the Lord came unto him,.... As before, after he had been a year at the brook, and that was dried up:

saying; as follows.


 
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