First Kings 17:10-24

¹⁰So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city a widow was there gathering sticks. So he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a jar so that I may drink.”

¹¹As she was going to get water he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”

¹²She replied, “As Yahweh your God lives, I do not have any bread, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug. See, I am gathering two sticks so I may go in and cook 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 make me a little bread first and bring it out to me. Then afterward make some for you and for your son.

¹⁴For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'The jar of meal will not empty, neither will the jug of oil stop flowing, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.”

¹⁵So she did as Elijah had told her. She and Elijah, along with her household, ate for many days.

¹⁶The jar of meal did not empty, neither did the jug of oil stop flowing, just as the word of Yahweh had said, as he had spoken by Elijah.

¹⁷After these things the woman's son, the woman who owned the house, fell sick. His sickness was so severe that there was no more breath left in him.

¹⁸So his mother said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Have you come to me to remind me of my sin and to kill my son?”

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

²⁰He cried to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought disaster on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

²¹Then Elijah stretched himself on the child three times; he cried out to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, I beg you, please let this child's life return to him.”

²²Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; the life of the child returned to him, and he revived.

²³Elijah took the child and brought him out of his room down into the house; he handed the boy to his mother and said, “See, your son is alive.”

²⁴The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is true.”