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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now 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." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the word of the LORD came to him: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So 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?" |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"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 olive 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." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18She 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?" |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then he cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?" |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!" |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The LORD heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Elijah 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!" |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then 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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