1 Kings 17:12
But she replied, “As surely as the Lord your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, 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.
She said, “As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the 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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- As the Lord
- 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Samuel 14:39, 45; 1 Samuel 20:3, 21; 1 Samuel 25:26; 1 Samuel 26:10; 2 Samuel 15:21; Jeremiah 4:2; Jeremiah 5:2
- but an handful
- 2 Kings 4:2–7; Matthew 15:33, 34
- that we may eat it
- Genesis 21:16; Jeremiah 14:18; Lamentations 4:9; Ezekiel 12:18, 19; Joel 1:15, 16