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Luke 4:25

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But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

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Luke 4:25 in other translations

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;

Luke 4:25 · American Standard Version

Luke 4:25 in context

  1. 23He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”
  2. 24He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
  3. 25But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
  4. 26Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
  5. 27There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”