Elijah Raises 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 ^[a]condition became very grave, until at the end ^[b]he was no longer breathing. ¹⁸ So she said to Elijah, “^[c](A)Why is my business any of yours, you ^(B)man of God? Yet you have come to me to bring my wrongdoing to remembrance, and to put my son to death!” ¹⁹ But he said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her ^[d]arms and carried him up to the upstairs room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. ²⁰ And he called to the Lord and said, “Lord, my God, have You also brought catastrophe upon the widow with whom I am ^[e]staying, by causing her son to die?” ^21 (C)Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times, and called to the Lord and said, “Lord, my God, please, let this boy’s life return ^[f]to him.” ²² And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah, ^(D)and the life of the boy returned ^[g]to him and he revived. ²³ Elijah then took the boy and brought him down from the upstairs 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 that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”