²⁰ Then he cried^(A) out to the Lord, “Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?”

²¹ Then he stretched^(A) himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”

⁴² So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.^(A)

⁴⁴ The seventh time^(A) the servant reported, “A cloud^(B) as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”

¹⁷ Elijah was a human being, even as we are.^(A) He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.^(B)

¹⁸ Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.^(A)