1 Kings 17 / 22
- 1Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD , the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."
- 2Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
- 3"Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.
- 4You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there."
- 5So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.
- 6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. ( The Widow at Zarephath )
- 7Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
- 8Then the word of the LORD came to him:
- 9"Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food."
- 10So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, "Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?"
- 11As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread."
- 12"As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread-only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it-and die."
- 13Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.
- 14For this is what the LORD , the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.' "
- 15She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.
- 16For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.
- 17Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.
- 18She said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?"
- 19"Give me your son," Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.
- 20Then he cried out to the LORD , "O LORD my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?"
- 21Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried to the LORD , "O LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!"
- 22The LORD heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived.
- 23Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, "Look, your son is alive!"
- 24Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth."