1 Kings 17:13-22

¹³Elijah said to her, “Don't be afraid. Go home and do what you said. But first make me a small loaf of bread from what you have and bring it to me. Then make something for yourself and your son.

¹⁴For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not become empty and the jug of olive oil will not run out until the day the Lord sends rain to water the ground.”

¹⁵She went and did as Elijah had told her, and Elijah, the widow, and her household were able to eat for many days.

¹⁶The jar of flour was did not become empty and the jug of olive oil did not run out, just as the Lord had said through Elijah.

¹⁷Later on the woman's son fell sick. (She was the one who owned the house.) He went from bad to worse, and finally he died.

¹⁸“What are you doing to me, man of God?” the woman asked Elijah. “Have you come to remind me about my sins and cause my son to die?”

¹⁹“Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He picked him up from her arms, carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

²⁰Then he cried out to the Lord, saying, “Lord my God, why have you allowed this to happen to this widow who has opened her home to me, this terrible tragedy of causing her son to die?”

²¹He stretched himself out on the boy three times, and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, please let this boy's life return to him!”

²²The Lord responded to Elijah's cry. The boy's life returned to him, and he lived!