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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Elijah the foreigner, who was an alien resident from Gilead, told Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, in whose presence I'm standing, there will be neither dew nor rain these next several years, except when I say so." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Later, this message came to him from the LORD: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Leave here and go into hiding at the Wadi Cherith, where it enters the Jordan River. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You will be able to drink from that brook, and I've commanded some crows to sustain you there." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So Elijah left and did exactly what the LORD had told him to do—he went to live near the Wadi Cherith, where it enters the Jordan River. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Crows would bring him bread and meat both in the morning and in the evening, and he would drink from the brook. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But after a while, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then this message came to him from the LORD: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Get up, move to Zarephath in Sidon, and stay there. Look! I've commanded a widow to sustain you there." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So he got up and went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the entrance to the city, a widow was there gathering sticks. So he asked her, "Please, may I have some water in a cup so I can have a drink." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11While she was on her way to get the water, he called out to her, "Would you please also bring me a piece of bread while you're at it?" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"As the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have so much as a muffin, just a handful of flour in a bowl and some oil left in a bottle. Now I'm going to find some sticks so I can cook a last meal for my son and for me. Then we're going to eat it and die." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But Elijah told her, "You can stop being afraid. Go and do what you said, but first make me a muffin and bring it to me. Then make a meal for yourself and for your son, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14because this is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'That jar of flour will not run out, nor will that bottle of oil become empty until the very day that the LORD sends rain on the surface of the ground.'" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So she went out and did precisely what Elijah told her to do. As a result, Elijah, the widow, and her son were fed for days. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The jar of flour never ran out and the bottle of oil never became empty, just as the LORD had promised through Elijah. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Sometime later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. In fact, his illness became so severe that he died. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"What do we have in common, you man of God?" she accused Elijah. "You came to me so you could uncover my guilt! And you're responsible for the death of my son!" |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Give me your son," he replied. Then he took him from her lap, carried him upstairs to the room where he lived, and laid him on his bed. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then he called out to the LORD and asked him, "LORD my God, have you also brought evil to this dear widow with whom I am living as her guest? Have you caused the death of her son?" |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then he stretched himself three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, please cause the soul of this little boy to return to him." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The LORD listened to Elijah, and the soul of the little boy returned to him, and he revived. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Then Elijah took the little boy downstairs from the upper chamber back into the main house and delivered him to his mother. "Look," Elijah told her, "your son is alive." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The woman responded to Elijah, "Now at last I've really learned that you are a man of God and that what you have to say about the LORD is the truth." |
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