1 GLT And Elijah the Tishbite from the Tishbites of Gilead said to Ahab,“As Yahweh, the God of Israel is alive, before whose face I stand, there will not be dew or rain these years unless 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 GLT And the word of Yahweh was to him, saying, BSB BSB: Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:
3 GLT “Go from this place and turn for yourself eastward. And you will be hidden at the wadi of Kerith, 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 GLT 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 GLT And he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. And he went and dwelled at the wadi of Kerith, 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 GLT 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 GLT And it happened from the end of some days that the wadi dried up because rain was not in the land. BSB BSB: Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
8 GLT And the word of Yahweh was to him, saying, BSB BSB: Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
9 GLT “Rise, go to Zarephath, which is for 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 GLT And he rose and went to Zarephath. And he entered into the opening of the city. And behold, there was a woman, a widow, gathering wood pieces. And he called to her and he said,“Please take to me a little water in the vessel and I will 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 GLT As she went to take, and he called to her, and said,“Please take to me a bit 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 GLT And she said,“As Yahweh your God is alive, there is not for me a bread cake, but only a fullness of a palm of flour in the jar and a little bit of oil in the jug. And behold, I am gathering two wood pieces and I will enter and I make it for me and for my son. And we will eat it and 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 GLT And Elijah said to her,“Do not fear. Come, do according to your word, only make for me from there a little bread cake at the first and bring it out to me. And make for you and for your son at the later time. 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 GLT For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,’ The jar of flour will not come to an end, and the jug of oil will not lack, until 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 GLT 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 GLT The jar of flour did not come to an end, and the jug of oil did not lack, according to the word of Yahweh, which 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.
17 GLT And it happened that after these things 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 GLT And she said to Elijah,“What is to me and is to you, man of God, that you came to me to cause my iniquity to be remembered and to put my son to death?” 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 GLT And he said to her,“Give to me your son.” And he took him from her lap and he brought him up to the upper room there where he was dwelling, 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 GLT And he cried out to Yahweh and said,“Yahweh, my God, will you also cause evil on the widow with whom I am sojourning, by putting her son to death?” 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 GLT And he stretched himself out over the child three times. And he cried out to Yahweh and he said,“Yahweh, my God, please let the life of this child return on his inner part.” 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 GLT And Yahweh heard the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child returned on his inner part, 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 GLT 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 GLT And the woman said to Elijah,“Now this I know, 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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