1 Raja-raja 17:8-16

17:8 The Lord told him, ¹  17:9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told ²  a widow who lives there to provide for you.” 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 ³  of water, so I can take a drink.” 17:11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” ⁴  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.” ⁵  17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. ⁶  But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son. 17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’” 17:15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family. ⁷  17:16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised ⁸  through Elijah.

Matius 11:21

11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! ⁹  Woe to you, Bethsaida! If ¹⁰  the miracles ¹¹  done in you had been done in Tyre ¹²  and Sidon, ¹³  they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

[17:8]  ¹ tn Heb “And the word of the Lord came to him, saying.”

[17:9]  ² tn Heb “Look, I have commanded.”

[17:10]  ³ tn Heb “a little.”

[17:11]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “in your hand.”

[17:12]  ⁵ 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.”

[17:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “according to your word.”

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

[17:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “out, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[11:21]  ⁹ sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after a.d. 30.

[11:21]  ¹⁰ tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.

[11:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “powerful deeds.”

[11:21]  ¹² map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:21]  ¹³ sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”

[11:21]  map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.