Proverbs 30:20-21

20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, "I have done no wickedness."

21 For three things the earth is perturbed, Yes, for four it cannot bear up:

Proverbs 30:20-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 17

This chapter begins with a prophecy of Elijah, that there should be want of rain for some years to come, and he is directed to go first to the brook Cherith, where he should be fed by ravens, 1Ki 17:1-7, and afterwards he is sent to a widow at Zarephath, where he, she, and her son, were supported for a considerable time with a handful of meal, and a little oil in a cruse miraculously increased, 1Ki 17:8-16, whose son falling sick and dying, he restored to life, 1Ki 17:17-24.