1 Kings 17

¹And Elijah the Tishbite, of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab: As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew or rain these years, except according to my word.

²And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

³Go from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

⁴And it shall be that you shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there.

⁵So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; he went and dwelt by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

⁶And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.

⁷And it came about after a while that the wadi dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

⁸And the word of the LORD came to him, saying:

⁹Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded there a widow woman to sustain you.

¹⁰So he arose and went to Zarephath. And he came to the gate of the city, and behold, a widow woman was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, Please bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

¹¹And she went to fetch it, and he called to her and said: Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.

¹²And she said, As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, but only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the flask; and behold, I am gathering a couple of sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.

¹³And Elijah said to her: Do not fear; go, do according to your word; but make me a small cake from there first, and bring it out to me, and for yourself and for your son make some afterward.

¹⁴For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not fail, until the day the LORD gives rain upon the face of the earth.

¹⁵And she went and did according to the word of Elijah; and she ate, she and he and her household, for many days.

¹⁶The jar of flour was not spent, and the jug of oil did not fail, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by the hand of Elijah.

¹⁷And it came to pass after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe that no breath was left in him.

¹⁸And she said to Elijah: What have I to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance, and to kill my son!

¹⁹And he said to her: Give me your son. And he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

²⁰And he cried out to the LORD and said: O LORD my God, have you also brought calamity upon the widow with whom I am sojourning, by putting her son to death?

²¹And he stretched himself out upon the child three times, and he cried out to the LORD and said: O LORD my God, let the soul of this child return into him.

²²And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned within him, and he revived.

²³And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said: See, your son is alive.

²⁴And the woman said to Elijah, ‘Now this I know, that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.’