6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
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Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, …
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? …
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. …
And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
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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