¹Elijah the Tishbite , who was one of the settlers of Gilead , said to Ahab, “As the LORD , the God of Israel , lives , before whom I stand , there shall not be dew nor rain these years , but according to my word .”

²Then the LORD ’s word came to him , saying ,

³“Go away from here , turn eastward , and hide yourself by the brook Cherith , that is before the Jordan .

⁴You shall drink from the brook . I have commanded the ravens to feed you there .”

⁵So he went and did according to the LORD ’s word , for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan .

⁶The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning , and bread and meat in the evening ; and he drank from the brook .

⁷After a while , the brook dried up , because there was no rain in the land.

⁸The LORD ’s word came to him , saying ,

⁹“Arise , go to Zarephath , which belongs to Sidon , and stay there . Behold , I have commanded a widow there to sustain you .”

¹⁰So he arose and went to Zarephath ; and when he came to the gate of the city , behold , a widow was there gathering sticks . He called to her and said , “Please get me a little water in a jar , that I may drink .”

¹¹As she was going to get it , he called to her and said , “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand .”

¹²She said, “As the LORD your God lives , I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar . Behold , I am gathering two sticks , that I may go in and bake it for me and my son , that we may eat it , and die .”

¹³Elijah said to her , “Don’t be afraid . Go and do as you have said ; but make me a little cake from it first , and bring it out to me , and afterward make some for you and for your son .

¹⁴For the LORD , the God of Israel , says , ‘The jar of meal will not run out , and the jar of oil will not fail , until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.’”

¹⁵She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she , he , and her household ate many days .

¹⁶The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail , according to the LORD ’s word , which he spoke by Elijah .

¹⁷After these things , the son of the woman , the mistress of the house , became sick ; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him .

¹⁸She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you , you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son !”

¹⁹He said to her , “Give me your son .” He took him out of her bosom , and carried him up into the room where he stayed , and laid him on his own bed .

²⁰He cried to the LORD and said , “LORD my God , have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying , by killing her son ?”

²¹He stretched himself on the child three times , and cried to the LORD and said , “LORD my God , please let this child ’s soul come into him again .”

²²The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again , and he revived .

²³Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house , and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold , your son lives .”

²⁴The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God , and that the LORD ’s word in your mouth is truth.”