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Zarephath was a Phoenician town between Tyre and Sidon. During a famine, God sent Elijah here to be fed by a widow. Her flour and oil miraculously never ran out. When her son died, Elijah raised him back to life—the first recorded resurrection in Scripture.

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ElijahStayed with a widow at Zarephath; performed miracles there