1 Kings 17:1-24 MEV

[1] Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there will not be dew or rain these years except by my word." [2] The word of the LORD came to him, saying, [3] "Go from here and turn eastward and hide by the Kerith brook, which is east of the Jordan. [4] You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." [5] So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the Kerith brook, which is east of the Jordan. [6] The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. [7] After some time, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. [8] The word of the LORD came to him, saying, [9] "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there. I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." [10] So he got up and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, "Please get a small cup of water for me to drink." [11] As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." [12] She said, "As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread, but only a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a jar. I am gathering two sticks, that I can go in and make it for me and my son, so we may eat it and die." [13] Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make a little cake for me first, and bring it to me, and afterward, make some for your son and you, [14] for thus says the LORD God of Israel: The barrel of meal will not run out, nor will the jar of oil empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth." [15] She went and did what Elijah told her to do, and she, he, and her household ate many days. [16] The barrel of meal did not run out, nor did the jar of oil empty, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Elijah. [17] Later on, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became terribly sick, so much so that he had no breath left in him. [18] She said to Elijah, "What do I have to do with you, O you man of God? Have you come to remind me of my sin and to kill my son?" [19] And he said to her, "Give me your son," and he took him out of her arms and carried him up to a loft where he slept and laid him on his own bed. [20] He cried to the LORD and said, "O LORD, my God, have You brought tragedy upon the widow with whom I live by killing her son?" [21] And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the LORD and said, "O LORD, my God, I pray that You let this child's soul come into him again." [22] The LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he was revived. [23] Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and returned him to his mother, and Elijah said, "See, your son lives!" [24] The woman said to Elijah, "Now, because of this, I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth!"