¹And Elijah the Tishbite, an inhabitant of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there certainly will not be any dew or rain for the coming years, but it will be according to my word.” ²And the word of the Lord came to him and said, ³“Depart from here and turn to the east, and hide at Cherith Brook which is alongside the Jordan. ⁴And it will come to pass that you will drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there.” ⁵So he departed according to the word of the Lord, and he went away and stayed at the Cherith Brook which is alongside the Jordan. ⁶And the ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. ⁷And it came to pass after several days that the brook dried up, for there had been no rain in the land. ⁸And the word of the Lord came to him and said, ⁹“Arise and go to Zarephath, which is subservient to Sidon, and stay there. Look, I have instructed a widow there to sustain you.” ¹⁰So he arose and went to Zarephath, and he arrived at the entrance to the city, and what he saw was a widow there gathering wood, and he called out to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a cup for me to drink.” ¹¹Then as she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring a piece of bread for me with you.” ¹²And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I certainly do not have any cake, except a handful of flour in a jar, and a little oil in a jug, and you see that I am gathering a couple of sticks, so that I can go and prepare it for myself and for my son, so we can eat it and die.” ¹³Then Elijah said to her, “Do not be afraid. Go off and do what you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterwards make something for yourself and your son. ¹⁴For this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘The jar of flour will not become exhausted, and the jug of oil will not run out, before the Lord gives rain over the ground.’ ” ¹⁵Then she went and did according to Elijah's words, and she and he and her household ate from it for many days. ¹⁶The jar of flour did not become exhausted, and the jug of oil did not run out, according with the word of the Lord which he spoke through the intermediacy of Elijah. ¹⁷Then it came to pass after these things that the son of the woman who was the mistress of the household became ill, and his illness was so serious that there was no breath left in him. ¹⁸And she said to Elijah, “What have I got to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to kill my son?” ¹⁹And he said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her bosom, and he took him up to the upstairs room where he stayed, and he laid him on his bed. ²⁰And he called on the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, have you really done harm to the widow with whom I am lodging, by killing her son?” ²¹And he stretched out over the child three times, and he called out to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, please may the life of this child return within him.” ²²And the Lord heeded Elijah, and the child's life returned within him, and he lived. ²³Then Elijah took hold of the child and brought him down from the upstairs room into the main house, and he gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, “Look, your son is alive.” ²⁴And the woman said to Elijah, “Now I really know that you are a man of God, and the word of the Lord in your mouth is true.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 17: v.1 ↔ Revelation 11:6 ● v.9 ↔ Luke 4:26.