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1 Kings

Elijah in Zarephath: Provision and Resurrection

1 Kings 17:7-24
7And it came to pass at the end of days that the torrent dried up, for there had been no rain in the land. 8And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 9Arise, go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you. 10And he arose and went to Zarephath. And he came to the entrance of the city, and behold, a widow was gathering wood there. And he called to her and said, Please take for me a little water in the vessel, that I may drink. 11As she went to bring it, he called to her and said, Please bring me a morsel of food in your hand. 12And she said, As the LORD your God lives, there is no bun for me, except a fullness of a palm of flour in the jar and a little oil in the jar. And behold, I am gathering two pieces of wood, and I will come and make it for myself and for my son, and we will eat it and die. 13And Elijah said to her, "Do not fear. Come, do according to your word, but make for me from there a small bun first, and bring it out to me, and for you and for your son you will make afterward." 14For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: The jar of flour will not be finished, and the jar of oil will not lack, until the day the LORD gives rain upon the face of the land. 15And she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she ate, he, and her household, for many days. 16The jar of flour was not finished, and the jar of oil did not lack, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by the hand of Elijah. 17And it came to pass after these words that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became weak, and his sickness was strong, very much, until there remained no breath in him. 18And she said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to call my iniquity to remembrance and to cause my son to die?" 19And he said to her, "Give me your son." And he took him from her bosom and brought him up to the upper room where he was dwelling there, and he laid him upon his bed. 20And he called to the LORD and said, O LORD my God, have you also brought evil upon the widow with whom I am sojourning, by causing her son to die? 21And he measured himself upon the youth three times, and he called to the LORD and said, O LORD my God, please let the soul of this youth return upon his inward parts. 22And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the youth returned upon his inward parts, and he lived. 23And Elijah took the youth and brought him down from the upper room to the house, and he gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, See, your son is alive. 24And 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.

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