사르밧(Zarephath) 은
Sidon 에 속한 해안 성읍이다.
Elijah 가 기근이 심할 때 머물렀다.
7 After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
8 Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
9 “Arise, go to Zarephath , which belongs to Sidon , and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
사르밧 과부
당시 이곳에 있던 과부는 이방인이었지만,하나님의 선지자 엘리야가 요구하는 것을 순종하여 마지막 남은 식량을 엘리야에게 드린다.
이 순종으로 이 과부는 가뭄의 기간동안 양식이 끊이지 않게 된다.
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath ; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12 She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.
14 For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’ ”
15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.
16 The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.
이 이후 아들이 죽는일이 발생했지만, 엘리야의 기도로 아이는 다시 살아났다.
17 After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
18 She said to Elijah , “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
19 He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.
20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”
이 사르밧의 헬라어 음역이
사렙다 이다.
예수님은 누가복음에서 이 과부의 이야기를 하시며 고향에서의 사람들을 책망하신다.
Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon , to a woman who was a widow.
선지서의 사르밧
회복을 약속하시면서 하나님은 이 지역까지 땅을 얻을것이라고 이야기하셨다.
The captives of this army of the children of Israel , who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath ; and the captives of Jerusalem , who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.