World English Bible
Luke 4:26
“Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.”
Verse in context — Luke 4
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He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
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But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
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Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
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There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.
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They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
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