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Ancient Sarepta (Sarafand)
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Zarephath: smelting-shop or a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals --- a small Phoenician town about a mile from the coast almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon. Here Elijah sojourned with a poor widow during the great famine when the heaven was shut up three years and six months. It is called Sarepta in the New Testament ...
Luke 4:26:
But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta,
a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow
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