Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
Now
Elijah the Tishbite, who was among
the settlers
of Gilead, said to Ahab, “
As surely
as
the
LORD
lives—
the God of Israel before whom I stand —
there will
be neither
dew nor rain in
these years except
at
my word !”
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of
the foreigners
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 .
Then
a
revelation
from
the LORD
came to Elijah:
The word
of
Yahweh
came to him,
saying,
“Leave
here
, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of
Cherith, east
of
the Jordan.
Get
you
hence
, and
turn you
eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that
is
before
the Jordan.
And
you are
to
drink from
the brook ,
and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there. ”
It
shall
be,
that
you shall
drink of
the brook ;
and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
So Elijah
did what
the LORD
had
told
him,
and
he went and lived by the Brook of
Cherith, east
of
the Jordan.
So he
went
and
did according
to
the word
of
Yahweh;
for
he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that
is
before
the Jordan.
The ravens would
bring
him bread and meat
in the morning and evening ,
and he would
drink
from
the brook.
The ravens brought
him bread and flesh
in the morning ,
and bread
and
flesh
in
the
evening ;
and he drank
of
the brook.
Some
time
later,
however
, the brook dried up because there had
been
no rain in the land.
It
happened
after
a
while
, that
the brook dried up ,
because there was
no rain in the land.
Then
the word of the
LORD
came to Elijah:
The word of Yahweh
came to him,
saying,
“
Get up
and
go
to Zarephath of
Sidon, and stay
there .
Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide
for
you. ”
Arise,
get you
to Zarephath ,
which
belongs
to
Sidon, and dwell
there :
behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain
you.
So Elijah
got
up
and went to Zarephath .
When he arrived
at
the city
gate, there
was
a widow gathering sticks .
Elijah
called to her and said, “
Please bring
me a little water in a cup
, so
that I may drink. ”
So he
arose
and went to Zarephath ;
and
when he came
to
the gate of
the
city
, behold,
a widow was
there
gathering sticks :
and
he
called to her ,
and said, Please get
me a little water in a vessel
, that I may drink.
And
as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “
Please bring me a piece
of bread. ”
As she was going to get it, he called to her ,
and said, Please bring me a morsel
of bread in
your
hand
.
But
she replied
, “
As surely
as
the
LORD
your God lives, I have no
bread—only
a handful of flour
in a
jar and a little oil in a
jug.
Look
, I am gathering a
couple
of
sticks to
take
home
and prepare
a
meal
for myself
and my son, so
that we may eat it and die. ”
She said
, As Yahweh
your God lives, I don't
have a cake,
but
a
handful of meal
in the
jar ,
and a little oil in the
jar:
and
, 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.
“Do
not
be
afraid,”
Elijah said to her .
“
Go and do as you have said .
But first
make me a small
cake of
bread
from
what
you
have
, and bring it out
to me .
Afterward
, make some
for yourself
and your son ,
Elijah said to her ,
Don't
be
afraid;
go and do as you have said ;
but make me of
it
a little
cake first
, and bring it forth
to me, and
afterward
make for you
and for
your son .
for this
is
what
the
LORD
, the God of Israel, says:
‘
The jar of flour
will
not be
exhausted
and
the jug
of oil will
not
run
dry
until the day the
LORD
sends rain upon
the
face
of
the earth. ’”
For thus
says
Yahweh
, the God of Israel, The jar of meal
shall
not empty,
neither
shall
the jar
of oil fail,
until the day that
Yahweh
sends rain on
the earth.
So
she went and did according to the word
of Elijah ,
and there
was
food
every
day
for
Elijah
and the
woman
and her household
.
She went and did according to the saying
of Elijah :
and she,
and he,
and her house,
ate
[many]
days
.
The jar of flour
was
not
exhausted
and
the jug
of oil did
not
run
dry
, according to the word that
the
LORD
had
spoken
through
Elijah.
The jar of meal
didn't
empty,
neither
did
the jar
of oil fail
, according to the word of
Yahweh,
which
he
spoke
by
Elijah.
Later
, the son of the woman who
owned
the house became
ill
, and his sickness grew
worse
and
worse
, until
no breath remained
in him.
It
happened
after
these
things
, that
the son of the woman ,
the mistress
of
the
house, fell
sick;
and his sickness was
so
sore
, that
there
was
no breath left
in him.
“O
man
of
God,”
said the
woman
to Elijah, “
what have you
done
to me
? Have
you come to remind
me of
my iniquity
and cause
the
death
of
my son ?”
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 !
But
Elijah
said to her, “
Give me your son. ”
So
he took him from
her arms
, carried him to
the upper
room
where he was
staying
, and laid him on his own bed.
He
said to her, Give me your son. He took him out
of
her bosom
, and
carried him up
into
the chamber,
where he abode
, and laid him on his own bed.
Then
he cried out
to the
LORD
, “O
LORD
my God, have You also brought tragedy
on this
widow who
has
opened
her
home
to
me
, by causing
her son to
die
? ”
He cried to Yahweh
, and
said,
Yahweh
my God, have you also brought evil
on the
widow with
whom
I
sojourn
, by killing
her son?
Then
he stretched himself out
over
the child three times and cried out
to the
LORD
, “O
LORD
my God, please let this boy’s
life
return
to
him !”
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.
And
the
LORD
listened to the voice of Elijah ,
and the child’s
life
returned
to
him, and he lived
.
Yahweh
listened to the voice of Elijah ;
and the soul
of
the
child
came
into
him again
, and he revived
.
Then
Elijah took the child, brought him down from
the upper
room
into the house, and gave
him to his mother .
“Look
, your son is
alive,”
Elijah
declared
.
Elijah took the child, and
brought him down out
of
the chamber
into the house, and delivered
him to his mother ;
and
Elijah
said
, Behold,
your son lives
.
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 truth. ”
The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God ,
and that the word of Yahweh
in
your mouth is truth.
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