1 Kings 17:8-24

8Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9“Arise, go to 1Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, 2I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 10So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and 3he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a 4jar, that I may drink.” 11As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.” 12But she said, “5As the Lord your God lives, 6I have no 7bread, only a handful of flour in the 8bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering 9a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and 10die.” 13Then Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from 11it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. 14For thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘The 12bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil 13be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain on the face of the earth.’” 15So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16The 14bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil 15become empty, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke through Elijah.

17Now it came about after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. 18So she said to Elijah, “16What do I have to do with you, O 17man of God? 18You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death!” 19He said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. 20He called to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, have You also brought calamity to the widow with whom I am 19staying, by causing her son to die?” 2120Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and called to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, I pray You, let this child’s life return 21to him.” 22The Lord heard the voice of Elijah, 22and the life of the child returned 23to him and he revived. 23Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.” 24Then the woman said to Elijah, “24Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”