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1 Kings 17:6

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And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
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  1. Psalms 78:23–24Rank 1 from verse 6
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    23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

    24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

  2. Matthew 6:31–33Rank 2 from verse 6
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    31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

    32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

    33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

  3. Jeremiah 37:21Rank 3 from verse 6
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    21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

  4. Psalms 78:15–16Rank 4 from verse 6
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    15He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

    16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

  5. Luke 22:35Rank 5 from verse 6
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    35And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.

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1 Kings 17:6

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flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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morning

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Sense 1: The beginning or early part of the day, including hours before daylight. Sense 2: The dawn or a beginning compared with dawn.

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drank

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Past-tense or past-participial form of drink (to take liquid into the mouth and swallow it).

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5So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

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7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

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