“The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.”
— WEB
1 Kings 17:6
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“And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.”
— KJV
“And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.”
— ASV
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Commentary
the ravens brought him bread--The idea of such unclean and voracious birds being employed to feed the prophet has appeared to many so strange that they have labored to make out the Orebim, which in our version has been rendered "ravens," to be as the word is used (in Eze 27:27) "merchants"; or Arabians (Ch2 21:16; Neh 4:7); or, the citizens of Arabah, near Beth-shan (Jos 15:6; Jos 18:18). But the common rendering is, in our opinion, preferable to these conjectures. And, if Elijah was miraculously fed by ravens, it is idle to inquire where they found the bread and the flesh, for God would direct them. After the lapse of a year, the brook dried up, and this was a new trial to Elijah's faith.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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