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1 Kings 17:11 (NLT)

As she was going to get it, he called to her, “Bring me a bite of bread, too.”

But she said, “I swear by the Lord your God that I don’t have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die.”

1 Kings 17:13 (NLT)

But Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid! Go ahead and do just what you’ve said, but make a little bread for me first. Then use what’s left to prepare a meal for yourself and your son.

1 Kings 17:14 (NLT)

For this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: There will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again!”

1 Kings 17:15 (NLT)

So she did as Elijah said, and she and Elijah and her family continued to eat for many days.

1 Kings 17:16 (NLT)

There was always enough flour and olive oil left in the containers, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah.

1 Kings 17:17 (NLT)

Some time later the woman’s son became sick. He grew worse and worse, and finally he died.

1 Kings 17:18 (NLT)

Then she said to Elijah, “O man of God, what have you done to me? Have you come here to point out my sins and kill my son?”

1 Kings 17:19 (NLT)

But Elijah replied, “Give me your son.” And he took the child’s body from her arms, carried him up the stairs to the room where he was staying, and laid the body on his bed.

1 Kings 17:20 (NLT)

Then Elijah cried out to the Lord , “O Lord my God, why have you brought tragedy to this widow who has opened her home to me, causing her son to die?”

1 Kings 17:21 (NLT)

And he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the Lord , “O Lord my God, please let this child’s life return to him.”

1 Kings 17:22 (NLT)

The Lord heard Elijah’s prayer, and the life of the child returned, and he revived!

1 Kings 17:23 (NLT)

Then Elijah brought him down from the upper room and gave him to his mother. “Look!” he said. “Your son is alive!”

1 Kings 17:24 (NLT)

Then the woman told Elijah, “Now I know for sure that you are a man of God, and that the Lord truly speaks through you.”

1 Chronicles 17:1 (NLT)

When David was settled in his palace, he summoned Nathan the prophet. “Look,” David said, “I am living in a beautiful cedar palace, but the Ark of the Lord ’s Covenant is out there under a tent!”

1 Chronicles 17:2 (NLT)

Nathan replied to David, “Do whatever you have in mind, for God is with you.”

1 Chronicles 17:3 (NLT)

But that same night God said to Nathan,

1 Chronicles 17:4 (NLT)

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

1 Chronicles 17:5 (NLT)

I have never lived in a house, from the day I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until this very day. My home has always been a tent, moving from one place to another in a Tabernacle.

1 Chronicles 17:6 (NLT)

Yet no matter where I have gone with the Israelites, I have never once complained to Israel’s leaders, the shepherds of my people. I have never asked them, “Why haven’t you built me a beautiful cedar house?”’

1 Chronicles 17:7 (NLT)

“Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of my people Israel.

1 Chronicles 17:8 (NLT)

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before your eyes. Now I will make your name as famous as anyone who has ever lived on the earth!

1 Chronicles 17:9 (NLT)

And I will provide a homeland for my people Israel, planting them in a secure place where they will never be disturbed. Evil nations won’t oppress them as they’ve done in the past,

1 Chronicles 17:10 (NLT)

starting from the time I appointed judges to rule my people Israel. And I will defeat all your enemies. “‘Furthermore, I declare that the Lord will build a house for you—a dynasty of kings!

1 Chronicles 17:11 (NLT)

For when you die and join your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.