ought to be within Israel (as Obadiah depicts it in an ideal restoration, Obad. 20), and so Elijah’s visit there makes a claim regarding Yahweh’s ownership.7 There are close literary parallels with the Kerith episode above.8 ‘As you will see’ captures an idiom in Hebrew which invites the reader to view events unfolding from the perspective of the participants. Yahweh has ‘commanded’, i.e. providentially arranged it (not necessarily that she is aware of a divine instruction), that ‘a widow’ will ‘feed’