1 Kings 17:12

Contextual Overview

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to him: ⁸ The word of the LORD came to him, saying, ⁸ And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, ⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him, ⁸ Then the Lord spoke his word to Elijah, ⁸ The Lord told him, ⁸Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ⁸ Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ⁸ And the worde of the Lord came vnto him, saying, ⁸Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

Bible Verse Review
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As the Lord: 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Samuel 14:39, 1 Samuel 14:45, 1 Samuel 20:3, 1 Samuel 20:21, 1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 26:10, 2 Samuel 15:21, Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 5:2

but an handful: 2 Kings 4:2-7, Matthew 15:33, Matthew 15:34

that we may eat it: Genesis 21:16, Jeremiah 14:18, Lamentations 4:9, Ezekiel 12:18, Ezekiel 12:19, Joel 1:15, Joel 1:16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:16 - in the field 1 Kings 18:10 - the Lord Job 6:7 - as my sorrowful meat Job 21:25 - never Ecclesiastes 5:17 - he eateth Haggai 1:6 - eat Matthew 4:4 - but Matthew 14:20 - were Luke 7:12 - the only

Cross-References

Genesis 17:22
When he finished talking with him, God went up from Avraham.

Genesis 17:22
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
When he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
After God finished talking with Abraham, God rose and left him.

Genesis 17:22
When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

Genesis 17:22
And God finished speaking with him and went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
When He finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
And he left off talking with him, and God went vp from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
So He finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
God finished speaking to Abraham and then left.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth,.... Which shows her to be a good woman, swearing by the living God, and him only, and that she took Elijah to be a good man, and a prophet of the Lord:

I have not a cake; greater or less, not a morsel of bread in the house:

but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; these separate and unmixed, and not made into a cake, and dressed as she intended to do with them:

and, behold, I am gathering two sticks; or a few, which would be sufficient to bake such a quantity as her meal and oil would make; she speaks by the figure "meiosis", which expresses less than what is meant, as Ben Melech observes:

that I may go in and dress it for me, and my son, that we may eat it, and die; having nothing more left, and no expectation of any elsewhere, and the famine strong in the land; so that she could look for nothing but death after this was eaten.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the Lord thy God liveth - The words do not prove that the woman was an Israelite, or a worshipper of the true God; any Phoenician, recognizing in Elijah’s appearance the garb and manner of a Jehovistic prophet, might have thus addressed him: Baal-worshippers would have admitted Yahweh to be “a” living God. The woman does not say “as the Lord my God liveth.”

That we may eat it and die - Phoenicia always depended for its cereal supplies on the harvests of Palestine (1 Kings 5:9 note); and it is evident that the famine was afflicting the Phoenicians at this time no less than the Israelites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 17:12. A handful of meal in a barrel — The word כד cad is to be understood as implying an earthen jar; not a wooden vessel, or barrel of any kind. In the East they preserve their corn and meal in such vessels; without which precaution the insects would destroy them. Travellers in Asiatic countries abound with observations of this kind.

The word cruse, צפחת tsappachath, says Jarchi, signifies what in our tongue is expressed by bouteille, a bottle. Jarchi was a French rabbin.