1 Kings 17
New International Version - 1 Kings 17 << | >> 12345678910111213141516171819202122 17:1 Now 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.' 17:2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 17:3 'Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 17:4 You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there.' 17:5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 17:6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 17:7 Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 17:8 Then the word of the Lord came to him: 17:9 'Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.' 17:10 So 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?' 17:11 As she was going to get it, he called, 'And bring me, please, a piece of bread.' 17:12 '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.' 17:13 Elijah 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. 17:14 For 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.' ' 17:15 She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. 17:16 For 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. 17:17 Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. 17:18 She 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?' 17:19 '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. 17:20 Then 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?' 17:21 Then 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!' 17:22 The Lord heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived. 17:23 Elijah 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!' 17:24 Then 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.'