14 Bible Verses about Those Who Provided A Meal
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I will bring a bite to eat to refresh you. Stay a while before you continue your journey. They responded: Very well, do as you have said. Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes. Then Abraham ran to the herd. He selected a fat calf and told a servant to butcher it and prepare it.read more.
He took butter and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree as they ate.
Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. He set a great feast before them, complete with fresh unleavened (unfermented) bread.
Food was brought. The man said: I will not eat until I have said what I have to say. Laban responded: Go ahead and speak.
Jacob gave him some bread and some of the soup. He ate and drank and then got up and left. Esau did not care about his birthright.
The brothers prepared their gifts so they could give them to Joseph at noon. For they had heard they were going to eat there.
So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to Jehovah's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.
Not knowing that it was Jehovah's angel, Manoah said: Please do not go yet. Let us cook a young goat for you. The angel replied: If I stay I will not eat your food. But if you want to prepare it, burn it as an offering to Jehovah.
David's men found an Egyptian in the open country and took him to David. They gave him food to eat and water to drink.
Now, a visitor came to the rich man. The rich man thought it would be a pity to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler. So he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the traveler.
Jonadab said: Pretend that you are sick and go to bed. When your father comes to see you, say to him: 'Please ask my sister Tamar to come and feed me. I want her to fix the food here where I can see her. Then she can serve it to me.' So Amnon went to bed and pretended that he was sick. King David went to see him. Amnon said: Please have Tamar come and make a few cakes here where I can see her. Then she can serve them to me. David sent word to Tamar at the palace: Go to Amnon's house and fix him some food.read more.
She went there and found him in bed. She prepared dough and made some cakes there where he could see her. Then she baked the cakes. Tamar emptied them out of the pan for him to eat. But he refused to eat. He said: Send everyone away. So they all left. He said to her: Bring the cakes here to my bed and serve them to me. She took the cakes and went over to him.
Elijah said to her: Have no fear. Go and do as you said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me. Then make something for yourself and your son. For this is the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel: 'Your supply of meal will not come to an end. The bottle will never be without oil, till the day when Jehovah sends rain on the earth.' She did as Elijah told her and they all had food for a long time.read more.
The store of meal did not come to an end. The bottle was never without oil. This was just as Jehovah said through the mouth of Elijah.
He took them to his house and fed them. They rejoiced along with his entire house, having believed in God.
Bible Theasaurus
- Meal (335 instances)
- Provided (148 instances)