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1 Kings 17 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Elijah Announces a Great Drought

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe[fn] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”

Elijah Fed by Ravens

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:2 - Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:3 - “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4 - You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:5 - So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:6 - The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:7 - Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:8 - Then the word of the LORD came to him:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:11 - As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12 - “As surely as the LORD your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:14 - For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:15 - She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:16 - For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17 - Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:18 - She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then he cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:22 - The LORD heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24 - 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 the truth.”
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