 | 1822 - 816 pages
...only a handful of "meal in a pot, anil a little oil in a cruse : behold I am gathering two >ticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elias said to her, Fear not, but go and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1822 - 356 pages
...up ? A. God sent him to a woman of Sarepta, near Sidon, to be maintained by her, when she had only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, 1 Kings xvii. 9, &c. 16 Q. How could this maintain the woman, her son, and the prophet ? A. God wonderfully... | |
 | Hugh Worthington - 1822 - 556 pages
...are nearly perishing from the scarcity of provision ; they are reduced to the scanty pittance of a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; but this reduced allowance is miraculously increased and continued for many days, which we find, by... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1823 - 508 pages
...the bread, if necessity had not pressed her; ' As the Lord thy God liveth, 1 have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse ; and behold, 1 am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and... | |
 | Lady - 1824 - 452 pages
...when he applied to her for a little water and a morsel of bread : " As the Lord liveth," said she, " 1 have but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little...was her despair converted into joy, when he directed hei " to go first and prepare him a cake, and after that make some for herself and son; for the barrel... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...morsel of " bread in thine hand." 12. And she said, " As the LORD thy God liveth, I " have not a cake, but an handful of " meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a " cruse : and behold, 1 am gathering " two sticks, that I may go in, and " dress it for me and my son, that we " may eat... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1829 - 304 pages
...he begged her to go and fetch him "a little water and a morsel of bread." She told him her poverty: "I have but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise : and behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
 | 1828 - 594 pages
...land. Elias was sent by Jehovah to a widow of Sidon, whose whole stock of provision was reduced to a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise? He was divinely commissioned to assure her that the meal should not •waste, nor the oil fail... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the I. n mi thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil...it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not ; go and do as thou hast said : but make me thereof a little cake... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1825 - 714 pages
...stick at the bread, if necessity had not pressed her. " As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
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And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die. 
