1 Kings 17

¹ Now Elijah the Tishbite, one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, the one I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."

² Then the word of the LORD came to him:

³ "Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.

⁴ You will drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."

⁵ So he went and did as the LORD had said. He went and stayed by the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.

⁶ The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.

⁷ After a while the wadi dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

⁸ Then the word of the LORD came to him:

⁹ "Get up, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. I have commanded a widow there to feed you."

¹⁰ So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he came to the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. He called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a jar so I may drink."

¹¹ As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."

¹² But she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks so I can go and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and then die."

¹³ Elijah said to her, "Do not be afraid. Go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake from it and bring it out to me; then make some for yourself and your son.

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 sends rain on the land.'"

¹⁵ So she went and did as Elijah had said, and she and Elijah and her household ate for many days.

¹⁶ The jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, just as the LORD had spoken through Elijah.

¹⁷ Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his illness grew so severe that no breath was left in him.

¹⁸ She said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?"

¹⁹ He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him from her arms, carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

²⁰ Then he cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, have you also brought disaster on the widow I am staying with, by killing her son?"

²¹ Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, please let this boy's life return to him."

²² The LORD listened to Elijah's voice, and the boy's life returned to him, and he revived.

²³ Elijah took the boy and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, "Look, your son is alive."

²⁴ Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth."