Popular Bible Verses from 1 King 17

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For thus says the LORD the God of Israel: The jar of meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.”

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

Elijah said to her, “Do not be afraid; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son.

But she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

“Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there, for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”

The jar of meal was not emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by Elijah.

She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days.

So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.”

You shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

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

But after a while the wadi dried up because there was no rain in the land.

So the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.”

So he went and did according to the word of the LORD; he went and lived by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah; the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.