Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

But an handful

Bible References

As the lord

1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite from the Tishbites of Gilead, will say to Ahab, Jehovah the God of Israel lives whom I stood before him if there shall be dew and rain but according to the mouth of my word.
1 Samuel 14:39
For Jehovah lives, having saved Israel, for if it is in Jonathan my son, for dying he shall die. And none from all the people answered him.
1 Samuel 20:3
And David will yet swear and say, Knowing, thy father knew that I found grace in thine eyes; and he will say, Jonathan shall not know this, lest he shall be grieved: but yet Jehovah lives and thy soul lives, for but a step between me and between death.
1 Samuel 25:26
And now my lord, Jehovah lives and thy soul lives, for Jehovah withheld thee from coming by blood, and saving thy hand to thyself, and now thine enemies shall be as Nabal, they seeking out evil to my lord.
1 Samuel 26:10
And David will say, Jehovah lives, for shall not Jehovah strike him? or his day shall come and he died; or he shall go down in the war and perish.
2 Samuel 15:21
And Ittai will answer the king, and say, Jehovah lives, and my lord the king lives, for surely in the place where my lord the king shall be, there whether for death, whether for life, for there will thy servant be.
Jeremiah 4:2
And thou swearest, Jehovah lives in truth, in judgment, and in justice; and the nations were blessed in him, and in him shall they praise.
Jeremiah 5:2
And if Jehovah lives, they will say, for this they will swear to a falsehood.

But an handful

2 Kings 4:2
And Elisha will say to her, What shall I do for thee? announce to me what is to thee in the house. And she will say, Not anything to thy servant in the house but a flask of oil.
Matthew 15:33
And his disciples say to him, Whence to us, in a lonely place, so many loaves, to satisfy such a crowd I

That we may eat it

Genesis 21:16
And she will go and seat herself from over against., being far off as the bending of a bow: for she said, I will not see the death of the child. And she will seat herself from over against, and she will lift up her voice and weep.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I shall go forth into the field, and behold, the wounded of the sword and if I came into the city, and behold, they shall be sick with famine for also the prophet, also the priest went about to a land they knew not
Lamentations 4:9
Those wounded by the sword were good above those wounded by famine: these will flow away, being thrust through from the produce of the field.
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, thou shalt eat thy bread with trembling, and thou shalt drink thy water with disquiet and with dread;
Joel 1:15
Alas! for the day: for the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.