1 Kings 17:15
Good News Translation
The widow went and did as Elijah had told her, and all of them had enough food for many days.

New Revised Standard Version
She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days.

Contemporary English Version
The widow went home and did exactly what Elijah had told her. She and Elijah and her family had enough food for a long time.

New American Bible
She left and did as Elijah had said. She had enough to eat for a long time—he and she and her household.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day

did according

Genesis 6:22 And Noe did all things which God commanded him.

Genesis 12:4 So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

Genesis 22:3 So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the desert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the midst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure: believe his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.

Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.

Mark 12:43 And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury.

John 11:40 Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?

Romans 4:19 And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.

Romans 4:20 In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

Hebrews 11:7,8,17 By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith. . . .

many days.

Context
The Widow of Zarephath
14For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth. 15She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day16The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.…
Cross References
1 Kings 17:14
For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.

1 Kings 17:16
The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.

1 Kings 17:14
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