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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/17-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Ravens Feed Elijah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Elijah the Tishbite from the Tishbites of Gilead, will say to Ahab, Jehovah the God of Israel lives whom I stood before him if there shall be dew and rain but according to the mouth of my word. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the word of Jehovah will be to him, saying, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Go from hence and turn to thyself east, and hide by the torrent Cherith which is before Jordan. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And being thou shalt drink from the torrent; and I commanded the ravens to nourish thee there. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he will go and do according to the word of Jehovah: and he will go and dwell by the torrent Cherith which is upon the face of Jordan. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the ravens bringing to him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he will drink from the torrent. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it will be from the end of days, and the torrent will dry up, for there was no rain upon the earth.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">The Widow of Zarephath<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the word of Jehovah will be to him, saying, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Arise, go to Zarephath which is to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I commanded a widow woman to nourish thee there. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he will rise and go to Zarephath, and will come to the entrance of the city, and behold there a widow woman gathering wood: and he will call to her, and say, Take now to me a little water in a vessel, and I will drink. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And she will go to take, and he will call to her and say, Take now to me a bit of bread in thy hand. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And she will say, Jehovah thy God lives, if there is to me a cake, but a handful of flour in a bucket, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold me gathering two woods, and I went to do it for me and for my son, and we shall eat and die. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Elijah will say to her, Thou shalt not fear; go and do according to thy word: but make to me from thence a little cake at first, and bring forth to me, and for thee and for thy son thou shalt make at last. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, The bucket of flour shall not be spent, and the cruse of oil shall not fail until the day Jehovah shall give rain upon the face of the earth. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And she will go and do according to the word of Elijah: and she will eat, she and he, and her house, days. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The bucket of flour was not spent, and the cruse of oil failed no; according to the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of Elijah.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Elijah Raises the Widow’s Son<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And it will be after these words, the son of the woman, the lady of the house, was sick, and his sickness was very strong till that breath was not left in him. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And she will say to Elijah, What to me and to thee, thou man of God? camest thou to me to bring to remembrance mine iniquity, and to kill my son? <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And he will say to her, Give to me thy son. And he will take him from her bosom and bring him up into an upper chamber where he sat there, and he will lay him upon his bed. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he will call to Jehovah, and say, Jehovah my God, didst thou also do evil upon the widow which I dwelt with her to kill her son? <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he will measure upon the child three times, and he will call to Jehovah, and say, Jehovah my God wilt thou turn back now the soul of this child within his inner part? <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Jehovah will hear to the voice of Elijah, and he will turn back the soul of the child within his inner part, and he will live. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Elijah will take the child and bring him down from the upper chamber of the house, and give him to his mother: and Elijah will say, See, thy son lives. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the woman will say to Elijah, Now this I know that thou a man of God, and the word of Jehovah in thy mouth, truth.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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