Zarephath in Biblical History

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What is Zarephath?
ZAR'EPHATH
(smelting-house), and SAREP'TA. Luke 4:26. Zarephath was a town of Phoenicia, on the shore of the Mediterranean, between Tyre, which is 14 miles southward, and Sidon, which is 7 miles north. Scripture History. - At Zarephath, Elijah found shelter with a widow-woman during the great famine in Israel. 1 Kgs 17:8-24. The prophet Obadiah mentions it as marking the limits of Israel's victory. Ob 20. Jesus made reference to this incident in Elijah's life. Luke 4:26. Present Appearance. - Not a house now remains; only ruins mark the site. They extend for a mile along the seashore, and contain many fragments of columns. A little chapel, or uely. bears the name of El-Khuds, the Mohammedan title of Elijah, and possibly marks the site of the chapel erected by the Crusaders over the spot where the widow's house is supposed to have stood. There is no tomb within, because, as the Mussulmans say, Elijah is not yet dead: he "flies round and round the world." Tradition also claims this as the spot where our Lord rested when he visited these coasts. On the slope of a hill more than a mile back from the coast is the modern village of Surafend, which represents the ancient Zarephath.

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