November 27, 2010

• The widow of Zarephath (Tzarfat,Sarepta) had son

  

  The widow of Zarephath (Tzarfat, Sarepta) had son

  

  Eliyah and Ravens

  

  The widow, son and Eliyah

   

   

  Shabbat Shalom Mischpocha!  

   

  You all are so blessed.   Want to share with you deeply about the widow of Zarephath (Tzarfat) had son.

   

  Zarephath (Tzarfat also Sarepta) 

  A city between Tyre and Sidon.

   

  Read Obadiah 1 Chapter:    

  Oba 1:19      And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

  Oba 1:20      And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

  Oba 1:21      And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be YHWH's.

   

  The above verse 20:     Pinpoint to the word:  Zarephath is in Sepharad.

   

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  Yeshua HaMashiyach spoke in Luke 4:24-27:

  Luk 4:24  And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

  Luk 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, when great famine was throughout all the land;

  Luk 4:26  But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

  Luk 4:27  And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

   

  You can check ISR, NASB, KJV, and others - more easy to read in 1 Kings 17 Chapter (CJB):

  Eliyah came to meet a widow woman of Zarephath (Tzarfat, Sarepta) had son.

   

  1 Eliyahu from Tishbe, an inhabitant of Gil'ad, said to Ach'av, "As ADONAI the God of Isra'el lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither rain nor dew in the years ahead unless I say so."

  2 Then the word of ADONAI came to him:

  3 "Leave here, turn to the east, and hide in Vadi K'rit near the Yarden.

  4 You are to drink from the stream, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there."

  5 So he went and acted according to the word of ADONAI- he went and lived in Vadi K'rit near the Yarden.

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

  7 After a while the stream dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

  8 Then this word of ADONAI came to him:

  9 "Get up; go to Tzarfat, a village in Tzidon; and live there. I have ordered a widow there to provide for you."

  10 So he set out and went to Tzarfat. On reaching the gate of the city, he saw a widow there gathering sticks. He called out to her, "Please bring a little water in a container for me to drink."

  11 As she was going to get it, he called after her, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."

  12 She answered, "As ADONAI your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a pot and a little oil in the jug. Here I am, gathering a couple sticks of wood, so that I can go and cook it for myself and my son. After we have eaten that, we will die."

  13 Eliyahu said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go; and do what you said; but first, use a little of it to make me a small loaf of bread; and bring it out to me. After that, make food for yourself and your son.

  14 For this is what ADONAI the God of Isra'el, says: 'The pot of meal will not get used up, nor will there fail to be oil in the jug, until the day ADONAI sends rain down on the land.'"

  15 She went and acted according to what Eliyahu had said; and she, he and her household had food to eat for a long time.

  16 The pot of meal did not get used up, nor did there fail to be oil in the jug, in fulfillment of the word of ADONAI spoken through Eliyahu.

  17 A while later, the son of the woman whose house it was fell ill; his illness grew increasingly serious until his breathing stopped.

  18 She said to Eliyahu, "What do you have against me, you man of God? Did you come to me just to remind me how sinful I am by killing my son?"

  19 "Give me your son," he said to her. Taking him from her lap, he carried him into the room upstairs where he was staying and laid him on his own bed.

  20 Then he cried out to ADONAI: "ADONAI my God! Have you brought also this misery on the widow I'm staying with by killing her son?"

  21 He stretched himself out on the child three times and cried out to ADONAI: "ADONAI my God, please! Let this child's soul come back into him!"

  22 ADONAI heard Eliyahu's cry, the child's soul came back into him, and he revived.

  23 Eliyahu took the child, brought him down from the upstairs room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Eliyahu said, "See? Your son is alive."

  24 The woman replied to Eliyahu, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of ADONAI that you speak is the truth."

   

  Zarephath in H6886

   

  Strong's H6886 - Tsarĕphath

   

  Outline of Biblical Usage

  Zarephath = "refinery"

  1) a city on the coast south of Sidon and the residence of Elijah during the last part of the drought; modern 'Sura-fend'

   

  Root Word (Etymology):

  From צָרַף (H6884)

   

  Strong's H6884 - tsaraph

  1) to smelt, refine, test

  a) (Qal)

  1) to smelt, refine

  2) to test

  3) to test (and prove true)

  4) smelter, refiner, goldsmith (participle)

  b) (Niphal) to be refined

  c) (Piel) to be a refiner

  1) refiner (participle)

   

  Root Word (Etymology)

  A primitive root

   

  I have book:  The New Complete Works of Josephus by translated by William Whiston.  Commentry by Paul L. Maier.

  Zarephath, a city not far from Sidon and Tyre:

  Josephus (Ant., VIII, xiii, 2) says it was not “far from Sidon and Tyre, for it lay between them.”

   

  May YHWH flow you study His Set-Apart Torah direct your heart thru Ruach HaKodesh in Yeshua's Mighty Awesome Name.  

  So be it!

  Malachi 3:16

   

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