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Zarephath in the Bible.

Zarephath is a town in the Bible, about 187 km (116 miles) north of Jerusalem. The King James Version names it in 4 verses, from 1 Kings 17:9 to Luke 4:26.

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What happened at Zarephath.

Smelting-shop, “a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals”, a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon. Here Elijah sojourned with a poor widow during the “great famine,” when the “heaven was shut up three years and six months” (Luke 4:26; 1 Kings 17:10). It is called Sarepta in the New Testament (Luke 4:26).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

People named with Zarephath.

Elijah 1

Near Zarephath.

All 4 verses that name Zarephath.

1 Kings 2

  • 1 Kings 17:9Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
  • 1 Kings 17:10So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

Obadiah 1

  • Obadiah 1:20And 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.

Luke 1

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

Questions about Zarephath.

Where is Zarephath in the Bible?

Zarephath is a town about 187 km (116 miles) north of Jerusalem. BibleLectio shows it on a painted map of the Bible’s world, with every verse that names it.

How many times is Zarephath named in the Bible?

The King James Version names Zarephath in 4 verses, in 3 books, from 1 Kings 17:9 to Luke 4:26.

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