The ravens - This is the translation of most of the ancient versions; others, omitting the points, which are generally allowed to have no authority, read “Arabians;” others, retaining the present pointing, translate either “merchants” (compare the original of Ezekiel 27:9, Ezekiel 27:27), or “Orbites.” Jerome took it in this last sense, and so does the Arabic Version.
Related Commentaries of 1 Kings 17:4
1 Kings 17:4
4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.