Chapter 17

  And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.  

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  And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,  

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  Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.  

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  And it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.  

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  So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.  

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  And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.  

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  And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.  

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  And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,  

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  Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.  

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  So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.  

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  And as she was going to fetch [it], he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.  

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  And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.  

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  And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.  

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  For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.  

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  And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.  

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  [And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.  

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  And it came to pass after these things, [that] the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.  

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  And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?  

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  And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.  

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  And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?  

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  And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.  

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  And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.  

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  And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.  

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  And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou [art] a man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is] truth.  

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