1 Kings 17
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1 Kings 17:10-24

10So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the entrance of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and 1he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a 2cup, so 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, “3As the Lord your God lives, 4I have no food, only a handful of flour in the 5bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering 6a few sticks so that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, so that we may 7eat it and 8die.” 13However, Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said. Just make me a little bread loaf from 9it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. 14For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘The 10bowl of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil become empty, until the day that the Lord provides rain on the face of the earth.’” 15So she went and did everything in accordance with the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16The 11bowl of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil become empty, in accordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke through Elijah.

17Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his 12condition became very grave, until at the end 13he was no longer breathing. 18So she said to Elijah, “1415Why is my business any of yours, you 16man of God? Yet you have come to me to bring my wrongdoing to remembrance, and to put my son to death!” 19But he said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her 17arms and carried him up to the upstairs room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. 20And he called to the Lord and said, “Lord, my God, have You also brought catastrophe upon the widow with whom I am 18staying, by causing her son to die?” 2119Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times, and called to the Lord and said, “Lord, my God, please, let this boy’s life return 20to him.” 22And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah, 21and the life of the boy returned 22to him and he revived. 23Elijah then took the boy and brought him down from the upstairs room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.” 24Then the woman said to Elijah, “23Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Kings 17:10 Gen 24:17; John 4:7 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 17:10 Lit vessel ↩
  3. 3. 1 Kings 17:12 1 Kin 17:1 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Kings 17:12 2 Kin 4:2-7 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Kings 17:12 Lit pitcher ↩
  6. 6. 1 Kings 17:12 Lit two ↩
  7. 7. 1 Kings 17:12 I.e., have their last meal ↩
  8. 8. 1 Kings 17:12 Gen 21:15, 16 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Kings 17:13 Lit there ↩
  10. 10. 1 Kings 17:14 Lit pitcher ↩
  11. 11. 1 Kings 17:16 Lit pitcher ↩
  12. 12. 1 Kings 17:17 Lit illness ↩
  13. 13. 1 Kings 17:17 Lit breath was not left in him ↩
  14. 14. 1 Kings 17:18 Lit What to me and to you, an ancient idiom ↩
  15. 15. 1 Kings 17:18 2 Sam 16:10; 2 Kin 3:13; Luke 4:34; John 2:4 ↩
  16. 16. 1 Kings 17:18 1 Kin 12:22 ↩
  17. 17. 1 Kings 17:19 Lit breast ↩
  18. 18. 1 Kings 17:20 Lit sojourning ↩
  19. 19. 1 Kings 17:21 2 Kin 4:34, 35; Acts 20:10 ↩
  20. 20. 1 Kings 17:21 Lit upon his inward part ↩
  21. 21. 1 Kings 17:22 Luke 7:14; Heb 11:35 ↩
  22. 22. 1 Kings 17:22 Lit upon his inward part ↩
  23. 23. 1 Kings 17:24 John 2:11; 3:2; 16:30 ↩

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