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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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="/bmc//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="/1_kings/">1 Kings</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/1_kings/17.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_kings/17.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_kings/17.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_kings/17.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_kings/17.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_kings/17.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/17.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Ravens Feed Elijah<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> 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!” <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah: <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">The Widow of Zarephath<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So 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.” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But 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.” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“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, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>for 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.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The 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. <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Elijah Raises the Widow’s Son<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“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?” <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” <p class="reg"> So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then 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?” <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then 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!” <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then 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. <p class="reg"><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 from your mouth is truth.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>who was from Tishbe in Gilead</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>the Cherith Ravine, near the Jordan</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 5<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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