Luke 4:25

Luke chapter 4 · verse 25 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;

Context

v.24And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country.

v.25This passage

v.26and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Ephesians 1:9
making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
James 5:17
Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
Matthew 20:15
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
1 Kings 18:1
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.