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Zarephath

Phoenician coast (near Sidon) · both · 4 verses

Zarephath was a town on the Phoenician coast belonging to Sidon. It lay outside the land of Israel. The name appears in 1 Kings, Obadiah, Luke in the King James text.

About Zarephath

Zarephath was a town on the Phoenician coast belonging to Sidon. It lay outside the land of Israel.

Its place in the story

During the famine Elijah was sent to a widow of Zarephath, whose flour and oil did not run out, and whose son the prophet raised to life. It shows God's provision reaching beyond Israel.

Zarephath in Scripture (KJV)

“Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.”

1 Kings 17:9 (KJV)

“So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.”

1 Kings 17:10 (KJV)

“And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.”

Obadiah 1:20 (KJV)

“But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.”

Luke 4:26 (KJV)

Where it leads

Jesus recalls the widow of Zarephath as a sign that God's mercy reaches beyond Israel to all who trust him.

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