Popular Bible Verses from 1 Kings 17

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For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: “The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.” ’

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, ‘As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.’

Elijah said to her, ‘Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

‘As surely as the LORD your God lives,’ she replied, ‘I don’t have any bread – only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it – and die.’

‘Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have instructed a widow there to supply you with food.’

For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.

She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.

So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, ‘Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?’

You will drink from the brook, and I have instructed the ravens to supply you with food there.’

As she was going to get it, he called, ‘And bring me, please, a piece of bread.’

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Then 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 the truth.’

So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.

The LORD heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.