﻿1 Kings.
Chapter 17.
Elijah the Tishbite, one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain these years except at my word.” 
The word of the LORD came to him: 
“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide by the Cherith Brook, facing the Jordan. 
You will drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 
He went and did according to the word of the LORD. He went and lived by the Cherith Brook, facing the Jordan. 
The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 
After a time the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 
The word of the LORD came to him: 
“Get up, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there. I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” 
So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he came to the city gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, “Please bring me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.” 
As she went to get it, he called to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand too.” 
She said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have no cake of bread, only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the jug. I am gathering two sticks so that I can go and prepare it for myself and my son. We will eat it and die.” 
Elijah said to her, “Do not be afraid. Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from it and bring it out to me. Afterward make something for yourself and your son. 
For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not run out, and the jug of oil will not fail, until the day the LORD sends rain on the ground.’” 
She went and did as Elijah said. She, Elijah, and her household ate for days. 
The jar of flour did not run out, and the jug of oil did not fail, according to the word the LORD had spoken through Elijah. 
After these things, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. His illness grew so severe that no breath remained in him. 
She said to Elijah, “What have you to do with me, man of God? Have you come to bring my guilt to remembrance and cause my son’s death?” 
He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upstairs room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. 
He cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, have you also brought calamity on the widow with whom I am staying by causing her son’s death?” 
He stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, please let this child’s life return within him.” 
The LORD heard Elijah’s voice. The child’s life returned within him, and he revived. 
Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upstairs room into the house, and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, “Look, your son is alive!” 
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 true.” 
