1 Kings 17:17-24

Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Returns Life to the Widow’s Son

¹⁷ Now it happened 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. ¹⁸ So she said to Elijah, “^(A)What do I have to do with you, O ^(B)man of God? ^[a]You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death!” ¹⁹ And he said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. ²⁰ Then he called to Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh my God, have You also brought calamity to the widow with whom I am sojourning, by causing her son to die?” ^21 (C)Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and called to Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh my God, I pray You, let this child’s life return ^[b]to him.” ²² And Yahweh heard the voice of Elijah, ^(D)and the life of the child returned ^[c]to him and he became alive. ²³ Then Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.” ²⁴ Then the woman said to Elijah, “^(E)Now I know this: that you are a man of God and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.”