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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Cherith
It was a ravine with a seasonal stream. Elijah hid there and ravens fed him in the early part of the three-year drought under King Ahab, and its exact location is uncertain.
It was a ravine with a seasonal stream. Elijah hid there and ravens fed him in the early part of the three-year drought under King Ahab, and its exact location is uncertain.
Cherith was not a person but a ravine with a seasonal stream where the prophet Elijah hid and was fed by ravens during the early part of a three-year drought under King Ahab (1 Kings 17:2-6). Its exact location is uncertain; proposals range from the Wadi Qelt near Jericho to ravines further east in Gilead.
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- 1 Kings 17:3
- 1 Kings 17:5
