...the poor widow woman told him that she had not a single cake of bread in her house, — nothing but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse : she was, therefore, just going to gather two sticks, that she might dress this last mouthful for...

...constantly put to denote few, or very few. Thus we find the poor widow answering the prophet Elisha, "As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse ; and behold, I am gathering two sticks...

...repeats science, and a cock which crows not in time of trouble." — ROBERTS. Ver. 12. And she said, 怀 2 c a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise : and, behold, I am gathering two sticks,...

...commanded a widow woman to sustain dice. And she said — I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in » barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and (Jrcss it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and...

...Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God livelh, . Fanshaw, for the American Bible Society mil behold, I am gathering two sticks, that 1 may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may...

...it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand, And she said, As the Lord, thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks,...

...prophet Elijah, in time of drought and famine sojourned with a widow who had, when he came to her, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse and who boarded him while the famine lasted? The Scriptures suggest no thought of a suspicion against Elijah...

...thy God liveth, I have no bread, but a mere handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse : behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it, for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die." Elias said to her: "Fear not, but go, and do as thou...

...to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, • .-. : T a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in the barrel, and a little oil in the cruse : and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in...

...Israel in the reign of Ahab, when the widow of Zarephath, and Elijah, and her house, subsisted upon " an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse " ; and we read that " the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word...