Luke 4:26

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

Luke 4:26 in Other Translations

KJV
26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
ESV
26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
NLT
26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
MSG
26 but the only widow to whom Elijah was sent was in Sarepta in Sidon?
CSB
26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them-but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Luke 4:26 In-Context

24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
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.
26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.
27 And there were many in Israel with leprosyin the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.

Cross References 1

  • 1. 1 Kings 17:8-16; S Matthew 11:21
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