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| 17:1 |
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."
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| 17:2 |
Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
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| 17:3 |
"Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.
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| 17:4 |
You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there."
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| 17:5 |
So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.
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| 17:6 |
The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
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| 17:7 |
Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
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| 17:8 |
Then the word of the LORD came to him:
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| 17:9 |
"Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food."
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| 17:10 |
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?"
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| 17:11 |
As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread."
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| 17:12 |
"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 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."
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| 17:13 |
Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.
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| 17:14 |
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 gives rain on the land.' "
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| 17:15 |
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.
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| 17:16 |
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.
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| 17:17 |
Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.
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| 17:18 |
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?"
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| 17:19 |
"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.
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| 17:20 |
Then he cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?"
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| 17:21 |
Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!"
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| 17:22 |
The LORD heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived.
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| 17:23 |
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!"
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| 17:24 |
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."
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