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Zarephath; a city between Tyrus and Sidon, called Sarepta by Luk_4:26, by Pliny, and others.
To Zidon; to the jurisdiction of that city, which therefore was inhabited by Gentiles. See Luk_4:25. And God’s providing for his prophet, first by an unclean bird, and then by a Gentile, whom the Jews esteemed unclean, was a notable presage of the calling of the Gentiles, and of the rejection of the Jews.
I have commanded, i.e. appointed or provided, as before, 1Ki_17:4; for that she had as yet no revelation or command of God about it, appears from 1Ki_17:12.