1 Kings 17

1Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”Cross-references: Deut 10:8 · Judg 12:4 · 1Ki 18:1 · 1Ki 18:10 · 1Ki 18:15 · 1Ki 22:14 · +22 more

2Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,Cross-references: 1Ki 12:22 · 1Chr 17:3 · Jer 7:1 · Jer 11:1 · Jer 18:1 · Hos 1:1

3“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:25 · Ps 31:20 · Ps 83:3 · Jer 36:19 · Jer 36:26 · John 8:59 · +4 more

4You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”Cross-references: Num 20:8 · 1Ki 17:9 · 1Ki 19:5 · Job 34:29 · Job 38:8 · Job 38:41 · +5 more

5So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.Cross-references: 1Ki 19:9 · Prov 3:5 · Matt 16:24 · John 15:14

6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.Cross-references: Ex 16:35 · Num 11:23 · Judg 14:14 · Judg 15:18 · Ps 34:9 · Ps 37:3 · +13 more

7After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.Cross-references: Isa 40:30 · Isa 54:10

8Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,Cross-references: Gen 22:14 · 1Ki 17:2 · Isa 41:17 · Heb 13:6

9“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”Cross-references: Judg 7:2 · Judg 7:4 · 1Ki 17:4 · Obad 1:20 · Matt 15:21 · Luke 4:26 · +2 more

10So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”Cross-references: Gen 21:15 · Gen 24:17 · John 4:7 · 2Cor 11:27 · Heb 11:37

11As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”Cross-references: Gen 18:5 · Gen 24:18 · 1Ki 17:9 · 1Ki 18:4 · Matt 10:42 · Matt 25:35 · +1 more

12She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”Cross-references: Gen 21:16 · 1Sam 14:39 · 1Sam 14:45 · 1Sam 20:3 · 1Sam 20:21 · 1Sam 25:26 · +11 more

13Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.Cross-references: Gen 22:1 · Ex 14:13 · Judg 7:5 · 2Ki 6:16 · 2Chr 20:17 · Prov 3:9 · +10 more

14For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:4 · 2Ki 3:16 · 2Ki 4:2 · 2Ki 4:42 · 2Ki 7:1 · 2Ki 9:6 · +2 more

15She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days.Cross-references: Gen 6:22 · Gen 12:4 · Gen 22:3 · 2Chr 20:20 · Matt 15:28 · Mark 12:43 · +4 more

16The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.Cross-references: 1Ki 13:5 · 1Ki 16:12 · Matt 9:28 · Matt 19:26 · Luke 1:37 · Luke 1:45 · +1 more

17After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.Cross-references: Gen 22:1 · 2Ki 4:18 · Job 12:10 · Job 34:14 · Ps 104:29 · Dan 5:23 · +8 more

18She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”Cross-references: Gen 42:21 · Gen 50:15 · Gen 50:17 · 1Sam 16:4 · 2Sam 16:10 · 2Sam 19:22 · +14 more

19He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.Cross-references: 2Ki 4:10 · 2Ki 4:21 · 2Ki 4:32 · Acts 9:37

20He cried to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · Ex 17:4 · Josh 7:8 · 1Sam 7:8 · 1Ki 18:36 · 2Ki 19:4 · +6 more

21He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”Cross-references: 2Ki 4:33 · Acts 9:40 · Acts 10:10 · Acts 20:10 · Heb 11:19

22Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.Cross-references: Deut 32:39 · 1Sam 2:6 · 2Ki 13:21 · Luke 8:54 · John 5:28 · John 11:43 · +4 more

23Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”Cross-references: 2Ki 4:36 · Luke 7:15 · Acts 9:41 · Heb 11:35

24The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”Cross-references: Eccl 12:10 · John 2:11 · John 3:2 · John 4:42 · John 11:15 · John 11:42 · +4 more