Place · Phoenicia · modern Sarfand, Lebanon
Zarephath
Zarephath was a Phoenician town where the prophet Elijah was miraculously sustained by a widow during a famine, as recorded in 1 Kings 17.
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Where Zarephath appears
3 passages across 2 books.
Passages set in Zarephath
- 1Kgs 17:9 — Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
- 1Kgs 17:10 — 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 wate
- Obad 1:20 — 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 th