[1] Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners 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. [2] The word of
Yahweh came to him, saying, [3] Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and
hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. [4] It shall
be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to
feed you there. [5] 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. [6] The
ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in
the evening; and he drank of the brook. [7] It happened after a while, that
the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. [8] The word of
Yahweh came to him, saying, [9] Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs
to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to
sustain you. [10] 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. [11] As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said,
Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. [12] She said, As Yahweh
your God lives, I aren`t they 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. [13]
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. [14] 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. [15] She went and did according to
the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days. [16]
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. [17] 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. [18]
She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man of God? you are
come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son! [19] 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. [20] 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? [21] 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. [22] Yahweh listened to the
voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he
revived. [23] 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. [24] 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.
