1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”stylusJames 5:17, James 5:17, Luke 4:25, Luke 4:26, Luke 4:252Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:stylusJeremiah 18:1, Jeremiah 18:1, Hosea 1:1, Hosea 1:2, Jeremiah 7:13“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.stylusJeremiah 36:19, Psalms 31:20, Psalms 83:3, Acts 17:14, Hebrews 11:384And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”stylus1 Kings 17:9, 1 Kings 17:9, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 4:4, Psalms 147:95So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.stylusProverbs 3:5, Matthew 16:24, 1 Kings 19:9, John 15:14, Proverbs 3:56The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.stylusPsalms 78:23, Psalms 78:24, Psalms 78:23, Psalms 78:24, Matthew 6:317Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.stylusIsaiah 54:10, Isaiah 54:10, Isaiah 40:30, Isaiah 40:31, Isaiah 40:308Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:stylusIsaiah 41:17, Genesis 22:14, Hebrews 13:6, 1 Kings 17:2, Isaiah 41:179“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”stylusLuke 4:26, Luke 4:26, Obadiah 1:20, Obadiah 1:20, 1 Kings 17:410So 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.”stylusJohn 4:7, Genesis 24:17, John 4:7, Genesis 24:17, Genesis 21:1511And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”stylus1 Kings 17:9, Genesis 24:18, Genesis 24:19, Hebrews 13:2, Matthew 10:4212But 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.”stylusMatthew 15:33, Matthew 15:34, 1 Kings 17:1, Matthew 15:33, Matthew 15:3413“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,stylusMatthew 6:33, Malachi 3:10, Matthew 6:33, Malachi 3:10, Proverbs 3:914for 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.’”stylusMatthew 15:36, Matthew 15:38, Matthew 15:36, Matthew 15:38, Matthew 14:1715So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.stylusMark 12:43, Genesis 6:22, Matthew 15:28, Hebrews 11:17, Mark 12:4316The 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.stylusMatthew 9:28, Matthew 9:30, Matthew 9:28, Matthew 9:30, John 4:5017Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.stylusPsalms 104:29, Zechariah 12:10, John 11:3, John 11:4, 2 Kings 4:1818“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?”stylusLuke 5:8, Luke 5:8, Luke 4:34, 2 Kings 3:13, Luke 4:3419But 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.stylus2 Kings 4:32, 2 Kings 4:32, Acts 9:37, 2 Kings 4:21, 2 Kings 4:1020Then 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?”stylusMatthew 21:22, James 5:15, James 5:18, Matthew 21:22, James 5:1521Then 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!”stylusActs 20:10, Acts 20:10, 2 Kings 4:33, 2 Kings 4:35, Acts 9:4022And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.stylusRevelation 11:11, Deuteronomy 32:39, Revelation 11:11, Deuteronomy 32:39, Hebrews 11:3523Then 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.stylus2 Kings 4:36, 2 Kings 4:37, Acts 9:41, Luke 7:15, 2 Kings 4:3624Then 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.”stylusJohn 16:30, John 16:30, John 3:2, John 2:11, John 3:2
