The Ravens Feed Elijah 1 ULT Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Tishbites of Gilead, said to Ahab,“The life of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whose face I stand, if there will be dew or rain these years except by the mouth of my word.” BSB BSB: Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
2 ULT And the word of Yahweh was to him, saying, BSB BSB: Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:
3 ULT “Go from here and turn for yourself eastward, and you shall hide yourself at the wadi of Cherith, which{ is} on the face of the Jordan. BSB BSB: “Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
4 ULT And it will happen that you shall drink from the wadi. And I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there.” BSB BSB: And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5 ULT And he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. And he went and dwelled at the wadi of Cherith, which{ is} on the face of the Jordan. BSB BSB: So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
6 ULT And the ravens were bringing bread and meat to him in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening. And he drank from the wadi. BSB BSB: The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
7 ULT And it happened, at the end of some days, that the wadi dried up because no rain was in the land. BSB BSB: Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
The Widow of Zarephath 8 ULT And the word of Yahweh was to him, saying, BSB BSB: Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
9 ULT “Arise, go to Zarephath, which{ is} to Sidon, and you shall dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a woman, a widow, there to sustain you.” BSB BSB: “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
10 ULT So he arose and went to Zarephath. And he came to the entrance of the city, and behold, a woman, a widow,{ was} there, gathering sticks. And he called to her and said,“Please take to me a little water in a vessel, and I shall drink.” BSB BSB: 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.”
11 ULT And she went to take, and he called to her and said,“Please take to me a piece of bread in your hand.” BSB BSB: And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”
12 ULT And she said,“The life of Yahweh your God, if{ there} is to me a bread- cake, but only the fullness of a palm of flour in a jar and a little bit of oil in a jug. And behold me, gathering two sticks, and I will enter, and I will make it for me and for my son, and we will eat it, and we will die.” BSB BSB: 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.”
13 ULT And Elijah said to her,“Do not fear. Come, do according to your word, only first make for me from there a little bread- cake and bring it out to me. And make for yourself and for your son afterward. BSB BSB: “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,
14 ULT For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,‘The jar of flour will not finish, and the jug of oil will not lack, up to the day Yahweh gives rain on the face of the ground.’” BSB BSB: 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.’”
15 ULT And she went and did according to the word of Elijah. And she ate, he and she and her house,{ for} days. BSB BSB: 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.
16 ULT The jar of flour did not finish, and the jug of oil did not lack, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of Elijah. BSB BSB: 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.
Elijah Raises the Widow’s Son 17 ULT And it happened after these things{ that} the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick, and his sickness became very strong until breath did not remain in him. BSB BSB: 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.
18 ULT And she said to Elijah,“What to me and to you, man of God? Did you come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to kill my son?” BSB BSB: “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?”
19 ULT And he said to her,“Give your son to me.” And he took him from her lap, and he brought him up to the upper room where he was dwelling there, and he laid him down on his bed. BSB BSB: But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
20 ULT And he cried out to Yahweh and said,“Yahweh my God, have you even brought harm upon the widow with whom I am sojourning, by killing her son?” BSB BSB: 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?”
21 ULT And he stretched himself out over the child three times. And he called out to Yahweh and said,“Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return into his midst.” BSB BSB: 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!”
22 ULT And Yahweh heard the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child returned into his midst, and he lived. BSB BSB: And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.
23 ULT And Elijah took the child, and he brought him down from the upper room to the house, and he gave him to his mother. And Elijah said,“See, your son lives.” BSB BSB: 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.
24 ULT And the woman said to Elijah,“Now I know this, that you{ are} a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth{ is} truth.” BSB BSB: 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.”
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