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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Kings 17 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 1 Kings 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/16.htm" title="1 Kings 16">◄</a> 1 Kings 17 <a href="../1_kings/18.htm" title="1 Kings 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Elijah and the Drought</h3><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_1"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.1" class="v11_17_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.17.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> A prophet named Elijah, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to King Ahab, “In the name of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the living God of Israel, whom I serve, I tell you that there will be no dew or rain for the next two or three years until I say so.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.2" class="v11_17_2">2</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Elijah, </span><span class="v11_17_3"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.3" class="v11_17_3">3</span>“Leave this place and go east and hide yourself near Cherith Brook, east of the Jordan. </span><span class="v11_17_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.4" class="v11_17_4">4</span>The brook will supply you with water to drink, and I have commanded ravens to bring you food there.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.5" class="v11_17_5">5</span>Elijah obeyed the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s command, and went and stayed by Cherith Brook. </span><span class="v11_17_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.6" class="v11_17_6">6</span>He drank water from the brook, and ravens brought him bread and meat every morning and every evening. </span><span class="v11_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.7" class="v11_17_7">7</span>After a while the brook dried up because of the lack of rain.</span></p><h3 class="s">Elijah and the Widow in Zarephath</h3><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.8" class="v11_17_8">8</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Elijah, </span><span class="v11_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.9" class="v11_17_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.17.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Now go to the town of Zarephath, near Sidon, and stay there. I have commanded a widow who lives there to feed you.” </span><span class="v11_17_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.10" class="v11_17_10">10</span>So Elijah went to Zarephath, and as he came to the town gate, he saw a widow gathering firewood. “Please bring me a drink of water,” he said to her. </span><span class="v11_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.11" class="v11_17_11">11</span>And as she was going to get it, he called out, “And please bring me some bread, too.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.12" class="v11_17_12">12</span>She answered, “By the living <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God I swear that I don't have any bread. All I have is a handful of flour in a bowl and a bit of olive oil in a jar. I came here to gather some firewood to take back home and prepare what little I have for my son and me. That will be our last meal, and then we will starve to death.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.13" class="v11_17_13">13</span>“Don't worry,” Elijah said to her. “Go on and prepare your meal. But first make a small loaf from what you have and bring it to me, and then prepare the rest for you and your son. </span><span class="v11_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.14" class="v11_17_14">14</span>For this is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, says: ‘The bowl will not run out of flour or the jar run out of oil before the day that I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, send rain.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_15"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.15" class="v11_17_15">15</span>The widow went and did as Elijah had told her, and all of them had enough food for many days. </span><span class="v11_17_16"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.16" class="v11_17_16">16</span>As the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had promised through Elijah, the bowl did not run out of flour nor did the jar run out of oil.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_17"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.17" class="v11_17_17">17</span>Some time later the widow's son got sick; he got worse and worse, and finally he died. </span><span class="v11_17_18"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.18" class="v11_17_18">18</span>She said to Elijah, “Man of God, why did you do this to me? Did you come here to remind God of my sins and so cause my son's death?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_19"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.19" class="v11_17_19">19</span>“Give the boy to me,” Elijah said. He took the boy from her arms, carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying, and laid him on the bed. </span><span class="v11_17_20"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.20" class="v11_17_20">20</span>Then he prayed aloud, “O <span class="nd">Lord</span> my God, why have you done such a terrible thing to this widow? She has been kind enough to take care of me, and now you kill her son!” </span><span class="v11_17_21"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.21" class="v11_17_21">21</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.17.21!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then Elijah stretched himself out on the boy three times and prayed, “O <span class="nd">Lord</span> my God, restore this child to life!” </span><span class="v11_17_22"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.22" class="v11_17_22">22</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> answered Elijah's prayer; the child started breathing again and revived.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_23"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.23" class="v11_17_23">23</span>Elijah took the boy back downstairs to his mother and said to her, “Look, your son is alive!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_17_24"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.17.24" class="v11_17_24">24</span>She answered, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> really speaks through you!”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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