Open English Translation 1 KI Chapter 17

8 Then Yahweh told Eliyah, 9 “Leave here and go to Tserefat in the Tsidon region and stay there. Listen, I’ve commanded a widow lady there to keep you fed.”[ref] 10 So he got ready and went to Tserefat. As he entered the town, he saw a woman picking up bits of firewood, and he asked her, “Can you please get me a drink of water.” 11 As she went to get it, he called out, “Would you have a piece of bread to go with it?.”

12 But she replied, “As your god Yahweh lives, I don’t have any bread at all—only a handful of flour in the jar, and a little bit of oil in the jug. See, I’m gathering a few bits of firewood so I can make a little bread for me and my son. After we’ve eaten that, then we’ll die.”

13 But Eliyah told her, “Don’t be worried. Go and do what you said, except make some bread for me first and bring it out to me. Then after that, you can make some for you and for your son, 14 because Yisrael’s god Yahweh has told me that your flour won’t run out and your oil won’t come to an end until the day when Yahweh gives us rain again.”

15 So the woman went and did what Eliyah said, then sure enough Eliyah and the widow and her household had enough food every day. 16 The jar of flour never got empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as Yahweh had promised via Eliyah.

17 Some time afterwards, the woman’s son got sick and then it got so bad that he died, 18 so she hassled Eliyah, “You man of God, why did you come here! Now my sins have been brought to God’s mind, and he’s caused my son to die!”

19 But he told her to bring her son to him, and taking the boy from her arms, he took the body upstairs to the room he was staying in, and laid him down on his bed. 20 Then he called out to Yahweh, “Yahweh, my god, would you really bring tragedy to this widow that I’m staying with by causing her son to die?” 21 Then three times he stretched himself over the boy’s body and begged Yahweh, “Yahweh, my god, please let this child’s life return into his organs.”[ref] 22 Yahweh took notice of Eliyah and the boy’s life returned and he revived.

23 Then Eliyah carried the boy back downstairs and gave him to his mother and told her, “Look, your son’s alive.”

24 “Now I certainly know that you’re a man of God,” the woman responded, “And when you say that you’re speaking for Yahweh, it’s really true.”