Bible Encyclopedia: The Poor: Widow of Zarephath

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A Prophet's Strange Providers
... It was a far cry from Cherith to Zarephath, right across the kingdom of Ahab; and ...
thought that God had sent him to a strange helper in this poor widow with her ...
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Elijah and the Widow's Son.
... wild prophet came to the fields outside Zarephath and waited ... the man, and went away
to her poor home; there ... happened some time later that this widow's son fell ...
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Letter Liv. To Furia.
... Let us recall to mind the widow of Zarephath [1606] who thought more of satisfying ...
on to the widow in the gospel who, though she was but a poor widow was yet ...
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Letter cxxv. To Rusticus.
... 3509] the reverend bishop of Toulouse, imitating the widow of Zarephath, [3510]
feeds ... has bestowed his whole substance to meet the needs of Christ's poor. ...
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The First Period. Ch. 4:14-44
... anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath ... of them was Elijah sent,
but only to Zarephath, in the ... of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.27 And ...
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Jesus visits Nazareth and is Rejected.
... of them was Elijah sent, but only to Zarephath, in the ... unto a woman [a Gentile] that
was a widow 27 And ... Palestine was filled with poor people even in times of ...
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Letter xxii. To Eustochium.
... She was giving money to the poor, a coin apiece; and this with her own hand, that
she might be accounted more religious ... 597] The widow of Zarephath, who with ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter xxii to eustochium.htm

A visit to his Home.
... he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He hath ... of them was Elijah sent,
but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. ...
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Christ Teaching Liberality
... us that the money which we give to the poor, or use ... God told him to go to the city
of Zarephath, or Sarepta ... Sea, and that he had commanded a widow woman there ...
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"Is not this the Carpenter's Son?"
... He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; ... of them was Elijah sent, but
only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. ...
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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Kings 17:12
And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Torrey's Topical Textbook