1Kings 17

Elijah Announces a Great Drought

17Now 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."H452H8664H8453H1568H559H256H3068H430H3478H2416H6440H5975H2919H4306H8141H6310H1697

Elijah Fed by Ravens

2Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:H1697H3068H5593"Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.H3212H6437H6924H5641H5158H3747H6440H33834You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there."H8354H5158H6680H6158H35575So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.H3212H6213H1697H3068H3212H3427H5158H3747H6440H33836The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.H6158H935H3899H1320H1242H3899H1320H6153H8354H5158

Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath

7Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.H7093H3117H5158H3001H1653H7768Then the word of the LORD came to him:H1697H3068H5599"Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food."H6965H3212H6886H6721H3427H6680H490H802H355710So 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?"H6965H3212H6886H935H6607H5892H490H802H7197H6086H7121H559H3947H4592H4325H3627H835411As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread."H3212H3947H7121H559H3947H6595H3899H302712"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."H559H3068H430H2416H3426H4580H4393H3709H7058H3537H4592H8081H6835H7197H8147H6086H935H6213H1121H398H419113Elijah 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.H452H559H3372H935H6213H1697H6213H8033H6996H5692H7223H3318H314H6213H112114For 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.'"H559H3068H430H3478H3537H7058H3615H6835H8081H2637H3117H3068H5414H1653H6440H12715She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.H3212H6213H1697H452H1004H398H311716For 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.H3537H7058H3615H6835H8081H2638H1697H3068H1696H3027H45217Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.H310H1697H1121H802H1172H1004H2470H2483H3966H2389H5397H349818She 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?"H559H452H376H430H935H2142H5771H2142H4191H112119"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.H559H5414H1121H3947H2436H5927H5944H3427H7901H429620Then 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?"H7121H3068H559H3068H430H7489H490H1481H4191H112121Then 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!"H4058H3206H7969H6471H7121H3068H559H3068H430H3206H5315H7725H7130H772522The LORD heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived.H3068H8085H6963H452H5315H3206H7725H7130H7725H242123Elijah 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!"H452H3947H3206H3381H5944H1004H5414H517H452H559H7200H1121H241624Then 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."H802H559H452H2088H3045H376H430H1697H3068H6310H571