1 Kings 17:1-9 ▼

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.|

2 The LORD told him:

3 |Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

4 Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.|

5 So he did as the LORD told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.

7 After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

8 The LORD told 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.|