OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 17:6

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The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

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Verse 6. And flesh. So the Hebrew and so forth But some copies of the Septuagint have, “bread in the morning, and flesh in the evening.” Theod. q. 52.—It is idle to inquire whence the ravens took this food. Calmet.—Some say from the kitchen of Achab. Abulensis—The minister of angels undoubtedly intervened. Tirinus.—God provides his servant with what may support nature, without any wine or delicacies. Bible.

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