25. “Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.
26. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
27. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.”