7At the end of days, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.8Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying.9Get up, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and you shall dwell there. Look, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.10He got up and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the city, there was a widow gathering wood. He called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a vessel so I can drink."11As she went to fetch it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."12She said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have no cake, only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the jug. Here I am gathering two sticks so that I can go and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die."13Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make a small cake from there for me, and bring it out to me. Then make some for you and for your son. You shall make it last."14For thus says the LORD God of Israel: The jar of flour will not be finished, and the jug of oil will not lack until the day the LORD gives rain on the face of the ground.15She went and did according to the word of Elijah. And she ate—she and he and her household—for many days.16The flour did not give out, and the jar of oil did not lack, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by the hand of Elijah.17Now after these things, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. His illness grew so severe that no breath remained in him.18And she said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, man of God? You came to me to remind me of my iniquity and to put my son to death."19He said to Elijah, "Give me your son." She took him from her bosom, carried him up to the upper room where he was sitting, and laid him on his bed.20Then he called to the LORD and said, "LORD my God, have you brought tragedy even on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?"21And he stretched himself out upon the child three times and he called to the LORD and he said, "LORD my God, please return the soul of this child to his inner parts."22And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the child's life returned to his body, and he lived.23Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, "See, your son lives."24The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth."