So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
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So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. And he went and dwelled at the wadi of Cherith, which on the face of the Jordan.
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So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
So he went and did according unto the word of Jehovah; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
So he went and did according vnto the word of the Lord: for he went, and remained by the riuer Cherith that is ouer against Iorden.
So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.
And he goeth and doth according to the word of Jehovah, yea, he goeth and dwelleth by the brook Cherith, that `is' on the front of the Jordan,
And he goes and does according to the word of YHWH, indeed, he goes and dwells by the Brook of Cherith, that [is] on the front of the Jordan,
So Elijah went and did as the word of Yahweh commanded. He went to live by the brook Kerith, east of the Jordan.
And he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. And he went and dwelled at the wadi of Cherith, which on the face of the Jordan.
And he went and did according to the word of Jehovah; he went and abode by the torrent Cherith, which is before the Jordan.
So he went and did according to the LORD’s word, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.
So he went and did according to the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
So Elijah did what the Lord told him. He went to the valley of the Cherith brook, where it meets the Jordan, and stayed there.
So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is כְּרִ֔ית Cherith H3747 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
כְּרִ֔ית Cherith H3747 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ וַיַּ֖עַשׂ כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ וַיֵּ֨שֶׁב֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל פְּנֵ֥י הַיַּרְדֵּֽן
So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ποιέω ηλιου κατά ὁ ῥῆμα κύριος καί καταἵζω ἐν ὁ χειμάρρους χορραθ ἐπί πρόσωπον ὁ ἰορδάνης
And Eliu did according to the word of the Lord, and he sat by the brook of Chorrath before Jordan.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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וַאֲזַל וַעֲבַד כְּפִתְגָמָא דַייָ וַאֲזַל וִיתֵיב בְּנַחְלָא דִכְרִית דִי עַל אַפֵּי יַרְדְנָא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Kᵉrîyth (“Cherith”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 17:5 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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Door43 World Missions Community
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