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Luke 4:25 Cross-References
Explore 11 cross-references for Luke 4:25 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Luke chapter 4 verse 25 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;”
Luke 4:25 (KJV)
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Commentary on Luke 4:25
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months. Jesus uses the prophetic formula ep' alētheias legō hymin (ἐπ' ἀληθείας λέγω ὑμῖν, in truth I tell you) to introduce a confrontational historical example. He references the drought during Elijah's ministry (1 Kings 17-18), when God sovereignly chose to send the prophet to a Gentile widow rather than to Israelite widows.The phrase "heaven was shut up" translates ekleisthē ho ouranos (ἐκλείσθη ὁ οὐρανός), emphasizing divine judgment—God closed heaven, withholding ra...
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Cross-References for Luke 4:25
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“who was of the foreigners of Gilead”
“and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain”
“neither are your ways my ways”
“because I am good?'”
“and said”
“a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.”
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.{Exodus 33:19}”
“that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah”
“having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;”
“O man”