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1 Kings: 17:7-24
Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him: “Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.” 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?” As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
“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.”
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. 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.’ ”
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. 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.
Some time later the son of the
woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally
stopped breathing. 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?”
“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. 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?” 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!”
The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and
the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. 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!”
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.”
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