1 Kings 17:16
Good News Translation
As the LORD had promised through Elijah, the bowl did not run out of flour nor did the jar run out of oil.

New Revised Standard Version
The jar of meal was not emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by Elijah.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD kept the promise that his prophet Elijah had made, and she did not run out of flour or oil.

New American Bible
The jar of flour did not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, according to the word of the LORD spoken through Elijah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.

the barrel

Matthew 9:28-30 And when he was come to the house, the blind men came to him. And Jesus saith to them, Do you believe, that I can do this unto you? They say to him, Yea, Lord. . . .

Matthew 19:26 And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible.

Luke 1:37,45 Because no word shall be impossible with God. . . .

John 4:50,51 Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him and went his way. . . .

according

1 Kings 13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given before in the word of the Lord.

by Elijah [heb] by the hand of Elijah

1 Kings 16:12 And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa, according to the word of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the prophet,

Context
The Widow of Zarephath
15She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day 16The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.
Cross References
Matthew 26:7
There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table.

1 Kings 17:15
She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day

1 Kings 17:17
And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.

1 Kings 17:15
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