Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Kings 17:3
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“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
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Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
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“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
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Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
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1 Kings 17
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
2 Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:
3 “Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
4 And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5 So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
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