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1 Kings 17:11

As she went to get it, he called out to her, "Please bring me a piece of bread."

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."
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 The Lord told him, 9 "Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you." 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 of water, so I can take a drink." 11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, "Please bring me a piece of bread." 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." 13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son. 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.'" 15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family. 16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised 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
his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.
Genesis 17:27
All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Exodus 4:25
But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses' feet, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."
Exodus 12:48
"When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord , all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land—but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
Deuteronomy 10:16
Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!
Joshua 5:3
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.
2 Samuel 3:14
David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand: "Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired for a hundred Philistine foreskins."
Acts 7:8
Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 4:11
And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness 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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