As the Lord your God liveth—The words do not prove that the woman was an Israelite or a worshipper of the true God. Any Phoenician, recogn…

I have not a cake. —The famine may have already extended to Phoenicia; for there, according to Menander, it lasted for a …

He called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of bread in your hand. And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I have not a cake, …

And she said, as the Lord your God liveth
Which shows her to be a good woman, swearing by the living God, and him on…

Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, and some, it is likely, would have welcomed him to their houses; yet he is sent to honour and ble…