Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Sidonians, and nearer their city than it was to Tyre. (Calmet)
Commanded, or provided that she shall feed thee. So he commanded the ravens, ver. 4. (Menochius)
It appears that the widow had received no precise intimation, ver. 12. She was not an Israelite, (Luke iv. 25.) but probably a pagan. (St. Chrysostom)
Many suppose that Elias did not know, at first, that she was to entertain him. (Calmet)
But both the one and the other might be divinely instructed how to act. In due time the widow and the prophet became acquainted with the will of God, and complied with it. (Haydock)
