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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Zarephath
Elijah stayed with a widow here during the famine, and her flour and oil did not run out. It sits on the coast road between Tyre and Sidon. Obadiah 1:20 uses it to say how far north the exiles will spread.
Elijah stayed with a widow here during the famine, and her flour and oil did not run out. It sits on the coast road between Tyre and Sidon. Obadiah 1:20 uses it to say how far north the exiles will spread.
Zarephath, a Phoenician town on the coast road between Tyre and Sidon, is best known as the place where the prophet Elijah lodged with a widow during a three-year famine, multiplying her flour and oil and later restoring her son to life (1 Kings 17:8-24). Obadiah later cites it as a name marking how far north Israelite exiles will one day resettle (Obadiah 1:20). Excavations at the site, ancient Sarepta, directed by James Pritchard in the 1970s, uncovered more than twenty pottery kilns, olive-oil and purple-dye workshops, and an inscribed shrine that confirmed the site's identity, along with continuous occupation through the Iron Age. The New Testament refers to it by its Greek name, Sarepta, when Jesus cites the widow's story (Luke 4:26).
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