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1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

1Elijah the foreigner, who was an alien resident from Gilead, told Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, in whose presence I'm standing, there will be neither dew nor rain these next several years, except when I say so."

2Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:

2Later, this message came to him from the LORD:

3“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

3"Leave here and go into hiding at the Wadi Cherith, where it enters the Jordan River.

4And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

4You will be able to drink from that brook, and I've commanded some crows to sustain you there."

5So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

5So Elijah left and did exactly what the LORD had told him to do—he went to live near the Wadi Cherith, where it enters the Jordan River.

6The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.

6Crows would bring him bread and meat both in the morning and in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.

7Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

7But after a while, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

8Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:

8Then this message came to him from the LORD:

9“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

9"Get up, move to Zarephath in Sidon, and stay there. Look! I've commanded a widow to sustain you there."

10So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

10So he got up and went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the entrance to the city, a widow was there gathering sticks. So he asked her, "Please, may I have some water in a cup so I can have a drink."

11And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”

11While she was on her way to get the water, he called out to her, "Would you please also bring me a piece of bread while you're at it?"

12But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

12"As the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have so much as a muffin, just a handful of flour in a bowl and some oil left in a bottle. Now I'm going to find some sticks so I can cook a last meal for my son and for me. Then we're going to eat it and die."

13“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,

13But Elijah told her, "You can stop being afraid. Go and do what you said, but first make me a muffin and bring it to me. Then make a meal for yourself and for your son,

14for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’ ”

14because this is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'That jar of flour will not run out, nor will that bottle of oil become empty until the very day that the LORD sends rain on the surface of the ground.'"

15So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.

15So she went out and did precisely what Elijah told her to do. As a result, Elijah, the widow, and her son were fed for days.

16The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.

16The jar of flour never ran out and the bottle of oil never became empty, just as the LORD had promised through Elijah.

17Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.

17Sometime later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. In fact, his illness became so severe that he died.

18“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”

18"What do we have in common, you man of God?" she accused Elijah. "You came to me so you could uncover my guilt! And you're responsible for the death of my son!"

19But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

19"Give me your son," he replied. Then he took him from her lap, carried him upstairs to the room where he lived, and laid him on his bed.

20Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”

20Then he called out to the LORD and asked him, "LORD my God, have you also brought evil to this dear widow with whom I am living as her guest? Have you caused the death of her son?"

21Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”

21Then he stretched himself three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, please cause the soul of this little boy to return to him."

22And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.

22The LORD listened to Elijah, and the soul of the little boy returned to him, and he revived.

23Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.

23Then Elijah took the little boy downstairs from the upper chamber back into the main house and delivered him to his mother. "Look," Elijah told her, "your son is alive."

24Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth.”

24The woman responded to Elijah, "Now at last I've really learned that you are a man of God and that what you have to say about the LORD is the truth."

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