1 Kings 17

17^*And ^†Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, ^aAs the Lord God of Israel liveth, ^bbefore whom I stand, ^cthere shall not be dew nor rain ^dthese years, but according to my word. ²And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, ³Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. ⁴And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. ⁵So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. ⁶And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. ⁷And it came to pass ^†after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

⁸And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, ⁹Arise, get thee to ^e||Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. ¹⁰So he arose and went to ^eZarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there ^fgathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. ¹¹And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. ¹²And she said, ^aAs 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 ^fgathering ^gtwo sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. ¹³And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. ¹⁴For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord ^†sendeth rain upon the earth. ¹⁵And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat ^||many days. ¹⁶And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake ^†by Elijah.

¹⁷And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. ¹⁸And she said unto Elijah, ^hWhat have I to do with thee, O thou ⁱman of God? art thou come unto me to ^jcall my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? ¹⁹And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a ^kloft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. ²⁰And ^lhe cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? ^21lAnd he ^†stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come ^†into him again. ²²And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he ^mrevived. ²³And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the ^kchamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. ²⁴And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this ⁿI know that thou art a ⁱman of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.