Timeline for How did the widow have water for Elijah in 1 Kings 17?
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| Jan 30, 2014 at 13:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBibleHerm/status/428884015031271425 | ||
| Jan 29, 2014 at 10:21 | comment | added | Caleb | Sorry about the hacked together first version of my answer. This site does not lend itself to missives typed from mobile. I've fixed it up a bit so that I'm at least not embarrassed by the 'accept'. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 8:25 | vote | accept | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | ||
| Jan 28, 2014 at 22:47 | comment | added | Joseph | The passage indicates that the lack of water affected the availability of food; that is, there was enough water to drink, but not enough water to develop food. The parallel is Jacob and his sons who lived in a severe drought. That is, they went to Egypt (where they met Joseph), but what they brought back to Jacob was not water, but food. In other words, there is water available in the droughts described in the Bible, but not enough to cultivate and develop food. Remember: the widow of Zarephath did not tell Elijah that she and her son were going to die of thirst, but of starvation (1 Ki 7:12). | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 22:16 | answer | added | Caleb | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 19:52 | history | asked | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |