The Koine Bible

And Elijah the prophet, the Tishbite, from Tishbe of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord lives, the God of powers, the God of Israel, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain in these years except by the mouth of my word.

And the word of the Lord came to Elijah.

Go from here eastward and hide in the brook Cherith, which is before the face of the Jordan.

And it shall be from the brook for you to drink water, and I will command the ravens to feed you there.

And Elijah did according to the word of the Lord, and he sat by the brook Cherith, before the Jordan.

And the ravens were bringing him bread in the morning and meat in the evening, and from the brook he was drinking water

And it came to pass after days, and the wadi dried up, because there had not been rain upon the earth.

And the word of the Lord came to Elijah.

Arise and go to Sarepta of Sidonia; behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to feed you.

And he arose and went to Sarepta, to the gate of the city; and behold, there a widow woman was gathering sticks. And Elijah cried after her and said to her, Please take a little water for me in a vessel, and I will drink.

And she went to take it, and Elijah called after her and said, Please take for me a morsel of bread in your hand.

And the woman said, As the Lord your God lives, if there is for me a cake, except only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the vessel; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, and I will go in and make it for myself and for my children, and we will eat it and die.

And Elijah said to her, Take courage, go in and do according to your word; but make for me from there a small cake first, and you shall bring it out to me, and for yourself and for your children you shall make it afterward.

For thus says the Lord: The jar of flour shall not fail and the jug of oil shall not diminish until the day when the Lord gives rain upon the earth.

And the woman went and did, and she and he and her children were eating.

And the jar of flour did not fail, and the jug of oil did not lessen, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Elijah.

And it came to pass after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick, and his sickness was very severe, until there was not left in him breath.

And she said to Eliu, What is there to me and to you, O man of God? You came in to me to bring my injustices to remembrance and to put my son to death.

And Eliu said to the woman, Give me your son. And he took him from her bosom and brought him up into the upper room where he himself was sitting there, and he laid him on his bed.

And Eliu cried out and said, Alas, Lord, witness of the widow with whom I dwell, with her you have afflicted to put her son to death.

And he breathed upon the child three times and called upon the Lord and said, Lord, my God, let the soul of this child, please, return into him.

And it came to pass thus, and the child cried out again.

And he brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother, and said, Elijah, see, your son lives.

And the woman said to Elijah, Behold, now I know that you are a man of God, and the word of the Lord in your mouth is true.