²⁵ But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when ^(A)the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,

²⁶ and Elijah was sent to none of them ^(A)but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.