Kings III 17:4-22

⁴And it shall be that you shall drink water of the brook, and I will charge the ravens to feed you there.

⁵And Eliu did according to the word of the Lord, and he sat by the brook of Chorrath before Jordan.

⁶And the ravens brought him loaves in the morning, and flesh in the evening and he drank water of the brook.

⁷And it came to pass after some time, that the brook was dried up, because there had been no rain upon the earth.

⁸And the word of the Lord came to Eliu, saying,

⁹Arise, and go to Sarepta of the Sidonian land: behold, I have there commanded a widow-woman to maintain you.

¹⁰And he arose and went to Sarepta, and came to the gate of the city: and, behold, a widow-woman was there gathering sticks; and Eliu cried after her, and said to her, Fetch me, I pray you, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

¹¹And she went to fetch it; and Eliu cried after her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of the bread that is in your hand.

¹²And the woman said, As the Lord your God lives, I have not a cake, but only a handful of meal in the pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am going to gather two sticks, and I shall go in and dress it for myself and my children, and we shall eat it and die.

¹³And Eliu said to her, Be of good courage, go in and do according to your word: but make me thereof a little cake, and you shall bring it out to me first, and you shall make some for yourself and your children last.

¹⁴For thus says the Lord, The pitcher of meal shall not fail, and the cruse of oil shall not diminish, until the day that the Lord gives rain upon the earth.

¹⁵And the woman went and did so, and did eat, she, and he, and her children.

¹⁶And the pitcher of meal failed not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of Eliu.

¹⁷And it came to pass afterward, that the son of the woman the mistress of the house was sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him.

¹⁸And she said to Eliu, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come in to me to bring my sins to remembrance, and to kill my son?

¹⁹And Eliu said to the woman, Give me your son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and laid him on the bed.

²⁰And Eliu cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, you have wrought evil for her in slaying her son.

²¹And he breathed on the child thrice, and called on the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let, I pray you, the soul of this child return to him.

²²And it was so, and the child cried out,