15And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
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By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-16)We have here an account of the further protection Elijah was taken under, and the further provision made for him in his retirement. At destruction and famine he shall laugh that has God for his friend to guard and maintain him. The brook Cherith is dried up, but God’s care of his people, and kindness to them, never slacken, never fail, but are still the same, are still continued and drawn out to t…
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