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“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
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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.
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Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.
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And there were many in Israel with leprosy[a]in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”