Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.[815:1]

1 Kings vi. 7.

A proverb and a byword.

1 Kings ix. 7.

I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

1 Kings xvii. 9.

An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.

1 Kings xvii. 12.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

1 Kings xvii. 16.