“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;”
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 — the two Elijah-Elisha illustrations are the most provocative element of the Nazareth sermon. In Elijah's time, with famine across Israel, God sent the prophet not to an Israelite widow but to Zarephath in Sidon — Gentile territory. The illustration communicates that the divine initiative is not limited to Israel's geographic and ethnic boundaries.
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