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Elijah in Zarephath: Provision and Resurrection

1 Kings 17:7-24

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Chapter 17
7 At the end of days, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 8 Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying. 9 Get up, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and you shall dwell there. Look, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you. 10 He 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." 11 As she went to fetch it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand." 12 She 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." 13 Elijah 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." 14 For 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. 15 She went and did according to the word of Elijah. And she ate—she and he and her household—for many days. 16 The 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. 17 Now 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. 18 And 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." 19 He 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. 20 Then 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?" 21 And 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." 22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the child's life returned to his body, and he lived. 23 Elijah 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." 24 The 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."