4And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
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Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. …
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The history of Elijah begins somewhat abruptly. Usually, when a prophet enters, we have some account of his parentage, are told whose son he was and of what tribe; but Elijah drops (so to speak) out of the clouds, as if, like Melchisedek, he were without father, without mother, and without descent, which made some of the Jews fancy that he was an angel sent from heaven; but the apostle has assured…
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