As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”
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.
- BSB And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”
- 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.”
- 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 24:18–19She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.
- Gen 18:5I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
- 1 Kgs 17:9“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
- Heb 13:2Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Matt 25:35–40for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
- 1 Kgs 18:4for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
- Matt 10:42Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
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