1 Kings 17
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Elijah’s Prediction of Drought
1#2Ki 3:14; Jas 5:17Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there will not be dew or rain these years except by my word.”
2The word of the Lord came to him, saying, 3“Go from here and turn eastward and hide by the Kerith brook, which is east of the Jordan. 4#1Ki 17:9You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and lived by the Kerith brook, which is east of the Jordan. 6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
The Widow of Zarephath
7After some time, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 8The word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9#Ob 1:20; Lk 4:26“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there. I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 10#Ge 24:17; Jn 4:7So he got up and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get a small cup of water for me to drink.” 11As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12#1Ki 17:1; Ge 21:16She said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, but only a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a jar. I am gathering two sticks, that I can go in and make it for me and my son, so we may eat it and die.”
13Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make a little cake for me first, and bring it to me, and afterward, make some for your son and you, 14for thus says the Lord God of Israel: The barrel of meal will not run out, nor will the jar of oil empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.”
15She went and did what Elijah told her to do, and she, he, and her household ate many days. 16The barrel of meal did not run out, nor did the jar of oil empty, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke by Elijah.
17Later on, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became terribly sick, so much so that he had no breath left in him. 18#2Ki 3:13; Lk 4:34She said to Elijah, “What do I have to do with you, O you man of God? Have you come to remind me of my sin and to kill my son?”
19And he said to her, “Give me your son,” and he took him out of her arms and carried him up to a loft where he slept and laid him on his own bed. 20He cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, have You brought tragedy upon the widow with whom I live by killing her son?” 21#Ac 20:10And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, I pray that You let this child’s soul come into him again.”
22The Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, andhe was revived. 23Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and returned him to his mother, and Elijah said, “See, your son lives!”
24#Jn 3:2; 16:30The woman said to Elijah, “Now, because of this, I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth!”
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1 Kings 17
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Elijah the prophet
Elijah stops the rain
1Elijah was a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead.#17.1 from Tishbe in Gilead: Or “from the settlers in Gilead”. One day he went to King Ahab and said, “I'm a servant of the living LORD, the God of Israel. And I swear in his name that it won't rain until I say so. There won't even be any dew on the ground.”#Jas 5.17.
2Later, the LORD said to Elijah, 3“Leave and go across the River Jordan so you can hide near Cherith Brook. 4You can drink water from the brook, and eat the food I've told the ravens to bring you.”
5Elijah obeyed the LORD and went to live near Cherith Brook. 6Ravens brought him bread and meat twice a day, and he drank water from the brook. 7But after a while, it dried up because there was no rain.
Elijah helps a widow in Zarephath
8The LORD told Elijah, 9“Go to the town of Zarephath in Sidon and live there. I've told a widow in that town to give you food.”#Lk 4.25,26.
10When Elijah came near the town gate of Zarephath, he saw a widow gathering sticks for a fire. “Would you please bring me a cup of water?” he asked. 11As she left to get it, he asked, “Would you also please bring me a piece of bread?”
12The widow answered, “In the name of the living LORD your God, I swear that I don't have any bread. All I have is a handful of flour and a little olive oil. I'm on my way home now with these few sticks to cook what I have for my son and me. After that, we will starve to death.”
13Elijah said, “Everything will be fine. Do what you said. Go home and prepare something for yourself and your son. But first, please make a small piece of bread and bring it to me. 14The LORD God of Israel has promised that your jar of flour won't run out and your bottle of oil won't dry up before he sends rain for the crops.”
15The widow went home and did exactly what Elijah had told her. She and Elijah and her family had enough food for a long time. 16The LORD kept the promise that his prophet Elijah had made, and she did not run out of flour or oil.
Elijah brings a boy back to life
17Several days later, the son of the woman who owned the house#17.17 the woman who owned the house: This may or may not be the same woman as the widow in verses 8-16. got sick, and he kept getting worse, until finally he died.
18The woman shouted at Elijah, “What have I done to you? I thought you were God's prophet. Did you come here to cause the death of my son as a reminder that I've sinned against God?”#17.18 Did you…God: In ancient times people sometimes thought that if they sinned, something terrible would happen to them.
19“Bring me your son,” Elijah said. Then he took the boy from her arms and carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying. Elijah laid the boy on his bed 20and prayed, “LORD God, why did you do such a terrible thing to this woman? She's letting me stay here, and now you've let her son die.” 21Elijah stretched himself out over the boy three times, while praying, “LORD God, bring this boy back to life!”#2 K 4.34,35.
22The LORD answered Elijah's prayer, and the boy started breathing again. 23Elijah picked him up and carried him downstairs. He gave the boy to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive.”
24“You are God's prophet!” the woman replied. “Now I know that you really do speak for the LORD.”
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