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The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.

And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”

…for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.

So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.

Soon his wife Jezebel came in and asked, “Why are you so sullen that you refuse to eat?”

But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

…and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”

One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.

Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”

…until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.

Some of their Kohathite relatives were responsible for preparing the rows of the showbread every Sabbath.

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

…as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.

Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;

Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.

…and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.

Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.

In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.

…for the showbread, for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings, for the Sabbath offerings, for the New Moons and appointed feasts, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the duties of the house of our God.

…because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

…yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

…so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.