Quotes about Sustenance
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
- 1 Samuel 30:12
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
- 2 Samuel 17:29
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- 1 Kings 4:22
ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
- 1 Kings 4:23
Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
- 1 Kings 4:27
And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
- 1 Kings 17:4
The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
- 1 Kings 17:6
Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
- 1 Kings 17:7
“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
- 1 Kings 17:9
for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”
- 1 Kings 17:14
So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.
- 1 Kings 17:15
The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.
- 1 Kings 17:16