²⁵ But I tell you truthfully, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land. ²⁶ Yet to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, a city of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷ And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. But none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”