1 Kings 17

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Tishbites of Gilead, said to Ahab, “The life of God, the God of Israel, to whose face I stand, if there will be dew or rain these years except by the mouth of my word.” \*

And the word of God was to him, saying,

“Go from here and turn for yourself eastward, and you shall hide yourself at the wadi of Cherith, which {is} on the face of the Jordan.

And it will happen that you shall drink from the wadi. And I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there.” \*

And he went and did according to the word of God. And he went and dwelled at the wadi of Cherith, which {is} on the face of the Jordan.

And the ravens were bringing bread and meat to him in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening. And he drank from the wadi.

And it happened, at the end of some days, that the wadi dried up because no rain was in the land. \*

And the word of God was to him, saying,

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which {is} to Sidon, and you shall dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a woman, a widow, there to sustain you.”

So he arose and went to Zarephath. And he came to the entrance of the city, and behold, a woman, a widow, {was} there, gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please take to me a little water in a vessel, and I shall drink.” \*

And she went to take, and he called to her and said, “Please take to me a piece of bread in your hand.”

And she said, “The life of God your God, if {there} is to me a bread-cake, but only the fullness of a palm of flour in a jar and a little bit of oil in a jug. And behold me, gathering two sticks, and I will enter, and I will make it for me and for my son, and we will eat it, and we will die.”

And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear. Come, do according to your word, only first make for me from there a little bread-cake and bring it out to me. And make for yourself and for your son afterward. \*

For thus says God, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour will not finish, and the jug of oil will not lack, up to the day God gives rain on the face of the ground.’”

And she went and did according to the word of Elijah. And she ate, he and she and her house, {for} days.

The jar of flour did not finish, and the jug of oil did not lack, according to the word of God that he had spoken by the hand of Elijah. \*

And it happened after these things {that} the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick, and his sickness became very strong until breath did not remain in him.

And she said to Elijah, “What to me and to you, man of God? Did you come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to kill my son?” \*

And he said to her, “Give your son to me.” And he took him from her lap, and he brought him up to the upper room where he was dwelling there, and he laid him down on his bed.

And he cried out to God and said, “God my God, have you even brought harm upon the widow with whom I am sojourning, by killing her son?”

And he stretched himself out over the child three times. And he called out to God and said, “God my God, please let the life of this child return into his midst.” \*

And God heard the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child returned into his midst, and he lived.

And Elijah took the child, and he brought him down from the upper room to the house, and he gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.”

And the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know this, that you {are} a man of God and the word of God in your mouth {is} truth.” \*