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1 Kings 17:6 (NIV)

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

1 Kings 17:7 (NIV)

Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

1 Kings 17:9 (NIV)

“Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”

1 Kings 17:10 (NIV)

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?”

1 Kings 17:11 (NIV)

As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”

“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.”

1 Kings 17:13 (NIV)

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.

1 Kings 17:14 (NIV)

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.’ ”

1 Kings 17:15 (NIV)

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.

1 Kings 17:16 (NIV)

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.

1 Kings 17:17 (NIV)

Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.

1 Kings 17:18 (NIV)

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?”

1 Kings 17:19 (NIV)

“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.

1 Kings 17:20 (NIV)

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?”

1 Kings 17:21 (NIV)

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!”

1 Kings 17:22 (NIV)

The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.

1 Kings 17:23 (NIV)

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!”

1 Kings 17:24 (NIV)

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.”

1 Chronicles 17:1 (NIV)

After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.”

1 Chronicles 17:2 (NIV)

Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.”

1 Chronicles 17:3 (NIV)

But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:

1 Chronicles 17:4 (NIV)

“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.

1 Chronicles 17:5 (NIV)

I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another.

1 Chronicles 17:6 (NIV)

Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” ’