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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he would drink from the brook. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Arise, go to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So he set out and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks [for firewood]. He called out to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a jar, so that I may drink.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar. See, I am gathering a few sticks so that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it [as our last meal] and die.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. Just make me a little bread from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD God of Israel says: ‘The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted nor shall the jar of oil be empty until the day that the LORD sends rain [again] on the face of the earth.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>She went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for <i>many</i> days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah. <p class="hdg">Elijah Raises the Widow’s Son</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So she said to Elijah, “What [problem] is there between you and me, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to mind and to put my son to death?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her arms and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He called to the LORD and said, “O LORD my God, have You brought further tragedy to the widow with whom I am staying, by causing her son to die?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then he stretched himself out upon the child three times, and called to the LORD and said, “O LORD my God, please let this child’s life return to him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the [lower part of the] house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> A town located along the Mediterranean Sea.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>