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1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, |As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.| Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” Now 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 The LORD told him: And the word of the LORD came to him: Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
3 |Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.
4 Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.| You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
5 So he did as the LORD told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. So he went and did according to the word of the LORD. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.
6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream. And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
7 After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land. And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
8 The LORD told him, Then the word of the LORD came to him, Then the word of the LORD came to him:
9 |Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.| “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” “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 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, |Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink.| So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” 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?”
11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, |Please bring me a piece of bread.| And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
12 She said, |As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.| And 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. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.” “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 Elijah said to her, |Don't be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son. And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son. Elijah 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 For this is what the LORD God of Israel says, 'The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the LORD makes it rain on the surface of the ground.'| For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth.’” 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 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family. And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. 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.
16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the LORD had promised through Elijah. The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by Elijah. 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.
17 After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe. After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.
18 She asked Elijah, |Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?| And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!” 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?”
19 He said to her, |Hand me your son.| He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed. And he said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her arms and carried him up into the upper chamber where he lodged, and laid him on his own bed. “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 Then he called out to the LORD, |O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?| And he cried to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?” Then 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 He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the LORD, |O LORD, my God, please let this boy's breath return to him.| Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the LORD, “O LORD my God, let this child’s life come into him again.” Then 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 The LORD answered Elijah's prayer; the boy's breath returned to him and he lived. And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived. The LORD heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.
23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, |See, your son is alive!| And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.” 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!”
24 The woman said to Elijah, |Now I know that you are a prophet and that the LORD really does speak through you.| And 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.” 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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