And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”
Parallel translations
- WEB As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
- KJV 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.
- NKJV And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
- NASB As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”
- NLT As she was going to get it, he called to her, “Bring me a bite of bread, too.”
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Quick answer
Elijah further asks the widow to bring him a piece of bread.
Overview
Elijah's added request for bread presses the widow to the limit of her meager resources, since she has barely enough for herself and her son. The request is, in effect, a call to put God's prophet, and thus God, first. It frames the test of faith that her response will answer.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Gen 24:18–19“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
- Gen 18:5And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
- 1 Kgs 17:9“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
- Heb 13:2Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Matt 25:35–40For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
- 1 Kgs 18:4for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
- Matt 10:42And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
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