1 Kings 17:5
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New International Version (©2011)
So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Elijah did as the LORD told him and camped beside Kerith Brook, east of the Jordan.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So he went and did according to the word of the LORD. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So he did what the LORD commanded. Elijah left and lived by the Wadi Cherith where it enters the Jordan.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Elijah left and did exactly what the LORD had told him to do—he went to live near the Wadi Cherith, where it enters the Jordan River.

NET Bible (©2006)
So he did as the LORD told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Elijah left and did what the word of the LORD [had told him]. He went to live by the Cherith River, which is east of the Jordan River.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is east of the Jordan.

American King James Version
So he went and did according to the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelled by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

American Standard Version
So he went and did according unto the word of Jehovah; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.

Darby Bible Translation
And he went and did according to the word of Jehovah; he went and abode by the torrent Cherith, which is before the Jordan.

English Revised Version
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

Webster's Bible Translation
So he went and did according to the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

World English Bible
So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

Young's Literal Translation
And he goeth and doth according to the word of Jehovah, yea, he goeth and dwelleth by the brook Cherith, that is on the front of the Jordan,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-7 God wonderfully suits men to the work he designs them for. The times were fit for an Elijah; an Elijah was fit for them. The Spirit of the Lord knows how to fit men for the occasions. Elijah let Ahab know that God was displeased with the idolaters, and would chastise them by the want of rain, which it was not in the power of the gods they served to bestow. Elijah was commanded to hide himself. If Providence calls us to solitude and retirement, it becomes us to go: when we cannot be useful, we must be patient; and when we cannot work for God, we must sit still quietly for him. The ravens were appointed to bring him meat, and did so. Let those who have but from hand to mouth, learn to live upon Providence, and trust it for the bread of the day, in the day. God could have sent angels to minister to him; but he chose to show that he can serve his own purposes by the meanest creatures, as effectually as by the mightiest. Elijah seems to have continued thus above a year. The natural supply of water, which came by common providence, failed; but the miraculous supply of food, made sure to him by promise, failed not. If the heavens fail, the earth fails of course; such are all our creature-comforts: we lose them when we most need them, like brooks in summer. But there is a river which makes glad the city of God, that never runs dry, a well of water that springs up to eternal life. Lord, give us that living water!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - So he went and did according auto the word of the Lord: for [Heb. and] he went and dwelt by [Heb. in] the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord,.... Took his journey eastward, and hid himself in the place directed to:

for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan; see Gill on 1 Kings 17:3.

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Ravens Feed Elijah
…4And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there. 5So he went and did according to the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelled by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

1 Kings 17:4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there."
1 Kings 17:6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.