As the Lord thy God liveth; by which she discovers, that though she was a Gentile, yet she owned the God of Israel as the true God. Two sticks, i.e. a few sticks, that number being oft used indefinitely for any small number, both in Scripture, as Hosea 6:2, and by other authors. That we may eat it, and die; for having no more provision, we must needs perish with hunger. For though the famine was only in the land of Israel, yet the effects of it were in Tyre and Zidon, which were fed by the corn of that land. See Acts 12:20. Or the same famine might be in those parts also; the chief cause of the famine, to wit, the worship of Baal, being common to both places.
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1 Kings 17:12
12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.