‘Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
‘And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
‘So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord:  for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.’
—1 Kings 17:3–5