The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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1 Kings 17:6 (ESV)

And he made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. There was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy in front of them.

Scratch the above: somehow I got 1 Kings 7:6.

1 Kings 17:6 (ESV)

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

 

[Marcelo]

1 Kings 17:7 New International Version (NIV)

Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath

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

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:8 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Then the word of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] came to him:[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:9 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot] “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 17:10 (KJV)
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:11 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.[/FONT]

 

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1 Kings 17:12 (KJV)

And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:13 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.[/FONT]

 

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1 Kings 17:14 (KJV)

For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.

​Wow! Is God great, or What?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:15 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.[/FONT]

 

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1 Kings 17:16 (KJV)

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

​Praise God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:17 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 17:18 (KJV)
And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:19 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.[/FONT]

 

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1 Kings 17:20 (KJV)

And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:21 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot], and said, O [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.[/FONT]

 

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1 Kings 17:22 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

Praise God again![/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Quite the intercessor! No wonder Elijah is famous.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 17:23 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 17:24 (KJV)
And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.