 | 1830 - 304 pages
...them. Wish you examples? In the ease of the widow of Zarrphath, you have a striking one.* She having only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise, for herself and son, though in the midst of famine, yet she generously divided this, her last... | |
 | Lucy Barton - 1831 - 188 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Spencer - 1831 - 166 pages
...certain period every morning and evening. Likewise, during a famine which he himself had foretold, a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, which belonged to a poor widow with whom he was lodging, never wasted away, but continued to... | |
 | Samuel Wood (B.A.) - 1831 - 172 pages
...upon his also asking her for a morsel of bread to eat, she told him she had nothing in the world but a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruise, and that she was gathering a few stricks, to dress it for herself and her son, that they might... | |
 | Mary W. Howland - 1831 - 302 pages
...me,, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, I have no bread, I have nothing but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and see, I am gathering these sticks that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we... | |
 | Manual - 1832 - 480 pages
...brook was dried up, 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 ; but God wonderfully increased the oil and the meal, so that the barrel of meal wasted not,... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, 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 cruise ; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...morsel of bread in thine hand. And ehe said, A» the Lord thy God liveth, I huve not a cake, but an said unto her, 1 am the resurrection and the life cruse ; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1833 - 298 pages
...that she was herself on the eve of starvation, for that her entire worldly sub«tance_ consisted of a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise, " of which she intended that very day to make a cake that she and her son might eat it and... | |
 | John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...was too much. Still her answer was respectful : " 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, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
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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. 
