The Ravens Feed Elijah
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, 1 said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!” Luk 4:25-26Jas 5:17Luk 1:171Ki 22:142Ki 3:141Ki 18:1Act 27:23Deu 10:8
Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah: Jer 11:1Jer 18:11Ch 17:31Ki 12:22Hos 1:1-2Jer 7:1 “Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan. 2 1Ki 22:25Heb 11:38Jer 36:19Jer 36:26Jhn 8:59Psa 31:20Psa 83:3Rev 12:14 And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 1Ki 17:9Psa 147:9Job 38:41Mat 4:41Ki 19:5-8Psa 33:8-9Mat 4:11Job 34:29
So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan. 1Ki 19:9Jhn 15:14Mat 16:24Pro 3:5 The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook. Psa 78:23-24Mat 6:31-33Jer 37:21Psa 78:15-16Luk 22:35Mat 14:19-21Mat 19:26Isa 33:16 Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Isa 54:10Isa 40:30-31
The Widow of Zarephath
Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: Gen 22:141Ki 17:2Heb 13:6Isa 41:17 “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” Luk 4:26Oba 1:202Co 4:71Ki 17:4Mat 15:21-22Rom 4:17-21Jdg 7:2Jdg 7:4
So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.” Gen 24:17Jhn 4:72Co 11:27Gen 21:15Heb 11:37 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” 1Ki 17:91Ki 18:4Gen 18:5Gen 24:18-19Heb 13:2Mat 10:42Mat 25:35-40
But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.” Mat 15:33-341Ki 17:12Ki 4:2-7Ezk 12:18-19Gen 21:161Sa 14:391Sa 14:451Sa 20:21
“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son, Mal 3:10Mat 6:331Pe 1:72Ch 20:172Ki 6:16Act 27:24Exo 14:13Gen 22:1-2 for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’” Mat 15:36-38Mat 14:17-202Ki 4:42-442Ki 3:162Ki 7:11Ki 17:42Ki 9:62Ki 4:2-7
So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household. Gen 6:22Heb 11:17Mat 15:28Mrk 12:432Ch 20:20Gen 22:3Heb 11:7-8Rom 4:19-20 The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah. Mat 9:28-30Jhn 4:50-51Luk 1:371Ki 13:51Ki 16:12Luk 1:45Mat 19:26
Elijah Raises the Widow’s Son
Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him. 1Pe 1:71Pe 4:122Ki 4:18-20Dan 5:23Gen 22:1-2Jas 1:12Jas 1:2-4Jas 2:26 “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?” Luk 5:82Ki 3:13Jhn 2:4Luk 4:342Sa 16:101Ki 13:11Ki 18:91Sa 16:4
But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” 2Ki 4:322Ki 4:102Ki 4:21Act 9:37
So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?” Jas 5:15-18Mat 21:221Ki 18:36-371Sa 7:8-92Ki 19:15Exo 17:4Gen 18:23-25Jos 7:8-9 Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!” Act 20:102Ki 4:33-35Act 9:40Heb 11:19Act 10:10
And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived. Deu 32:39Rev 11:11Heb 11:35Jhn 5:28-29Rom 14:91Sa 2:62Ki 13:21Jhn 11:43 Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared. 2Ki 4:36-37Act 9:41Luk 7:15Heb 11:35
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 truth.” Jhn 16:30Jhn 2:11Jhn 3:21Jn 2:211Th 2:13Jhn 4:42-48Ecc 12:10Jhn 11:15