6 occurrences

'Gathering' in the Bible

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtIsrael In The WildernessFirewoodSabbath Violated

Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Verse ConceptsRainSky

So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."

Verse ConceptsWaterDrinking WaterFirewoodgathering

She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

Verse ConceptsFlourLonelinessOlive OilSmall Things God UsesBarrelsResigned To DeathFirewoodDyingcooking

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