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Chapter 17· Book XI of 39
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.Elijah 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.” 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.” 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.So 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.” 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but 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.” 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.Elijah 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. 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.For 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.’” 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days. 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil did not fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah. 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.After 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. 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.She 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!” 19Verse 19. Open verse actions.He 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. 20Verse 20. Open verse actions.He 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?” 21Verse 21. Open verse actions.He 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.” 22Verse 22. Open verse actions.Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 23Verse 23. Open verse actions.Elijah 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.” 24Verse 24. Open verse actions.The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”