1 Kings 17:1
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1 Kings 17:1
1 Kings 17:2
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The word of the LORD came to him, saying,
1 Kings 17:3
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"Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.
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~"It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there."
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So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.
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The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.
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It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
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Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
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1 Kings 17:10
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So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, "Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink."
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As she was going to get {it,} he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."
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But she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die."
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Then Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring {it} out to me, and afterward you may make {one} for yourself and for your son.
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~"For thus says the LORD God of Israel, `The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth."'
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So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for {many} days.
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The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah.
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Now it came about after these things that 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.
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So she said to Elijah, "What do I have to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death!"
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