1 Raja-raja 17:20

17:20 Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

1 Raja-raja 11:26

11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against ¹  the king. He was an Ephraimite ²  from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

1 Raja-raja 17:9

17:9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told ³  a widow who lives there to provide for you.”

1 Raja-raja 7:14

7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, ⁴  and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge ⁵  to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.

1 Raja-raja 17:10

17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup ⁶  of water, so I can take a drink.”

1 Raja-raja 17:15

17:15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 17:11

17:11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 17:17

17:17 After this ⁹  the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

1 Raja-raja 17:24

17:24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.” ¹⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 17:8

17:8 The Lord told him, ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 17:18

17:18 She asked Elijah, “Why, prophet, have you come ¹²  to me to confront me with ¹³  my sin and kill my son?”

1 Raja-raja 17:12

17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” ¹⁴ 

[11:26]  ¹ tn Heb “raised a hand against.”

[11:26]  ² tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).

[17:9]  ³ tn Heb “Look, I have commanded.”

[7:14]  ⁴ tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”

[7:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “he was filled with the skill, understanding, and knowledge.”

[17:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “a little.”

[17:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “and she ate, she and he and her house [for] days.”

[17:11]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “in your hand.”

[17:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “after these things.”

[17:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you are a man of God and the word of the Lord is truly in your mouth.”

[17:24]  sn This episode is especially significant in light of Ahab’s decision to promote Baal worship in Israel. In Canaanite mythology the drought that swept over the region (v. 1) would signal that Baal, a fertility god responsible for providing food for his subjects, had been defeated by the god of death and was imprisoned in the underworld. While Baal was overcome by death and unable to function like a king, Israel’s God demonstrated his sovereignty and superiority to death by providing food for a widow and restoring life to her son. And he did it all in Sidonian territory, Baal’s back yard, as it were. The episode demonstrates that Israel’s God, not Baal, is the true king who provides food and controls life and death. This polemic against Baalism reaches its climax in the next chapter, when the Lord proves that he, not Baal, controls the elements of the storm and determines when the rains will fall.

[17:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And the word of the Lord came to him, saying.”

[17:18]  ¹² tn Heb “What to me and to you, man of God, that you have come.”

[17:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “to make me remember.”

[17:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”