25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of (A)Elijah, when heaven was shut three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the [a]land:

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:25 Land of Israel, see Mark 15:38.

25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.(A)

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26 But unto none of them was Elijah sent, save into Zarephath, a city of Sidon, unto a certain widow.

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26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.(A)

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