Luke 4:25-26
many Luke 10:21; Isa 55:8; Matt 20:15; Mark 7:26-29; Rom 9:15, Rom 9:20; Eph 1:9, Eph 1:11 when the 1Kgs 17:1, 1Kgs 18:1-2, Elijah, Jas 5:17 save 1Kgs 17:9-24, Zarephath, Obad 1:20 Sarepta Sarepta, a city of Phoenicia, on the coast of the Mediterranean, is called Zarphand by the Arabian geographer Sherif Ibn Idris, who places it twenty miles n of Tyre, and ten s of Sidon; but its real distance from Tyre is about fifteen miles, the whole distance from that city to Sidon being only twenty-five miles. Maundrell states that the place shown him for this city, called Sarphan, consisted of only a few houses, on the tops of the mountains, within about half a mile of the sea; between which there were ruins of considerable extent.
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