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It shall be that you shall drink from the wadi,[a] and I have commanded the crows to sustain you there.” So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. He went and stayed in the Wadi[b] Kerith which faces the Jordan.[c] The crows were bringing bread and meat in the morning for him and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 17:4 A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
  2. 1 Kings 17:5 A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
  3. 1 Kings 17:5 Literally “on the face of the Jordan”
  4. 1 Kings 17:6 A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season

You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens(A) to supply you with food there.”

So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning(B) and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

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