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1 Kings 17
¹⁹ But Elijah replied, “Give me your son.” And he took the child’s body from her arms, carried him up the stairs to the room where he was staying, and laid the body on his bed.
²⁰ Then Elijah cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, why have you brought tragedy to this widow who has opened her home to me, causing her son to die?”
²¹ And he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this child’s life return to him.”
²² The LORD heard Elijah’s prayer, and the life of the child returned, and he revived!
²³ Then Elijah brought him down from the upper room and gave him to his mother. “Look!” he said. “Your son is alive!”
²⁴ Then the woman told Elijah, “Now I know for sure that you are a man of God, and that the LORD truly speaks through you.”
1 Kings 18
¹ Later on, in the third year of the drought, the LORD said to Elijah, “Go and present yourself to King Ahab. Tell him that I will soon send rain!”
² So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. Meanwhile, the famine had become very severe in Samaria.
³ So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Obadiah was a devoted follower of the LORD.
⁴ Once when Jezebel had tried to kill all the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah had hidden 100 of them in two caves. He put fifty prophets in each cave and supplied them with food and water.)
⁵ Ahab said to Obadiah, “We must check every spring and valley in the land to see if we can find enough grass to save at least some of my horses and mules.”