Elijah Raises the Widow’s Son

17 Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his [a]condition became very grave, until at the end [b]he was no longer breathing. 18 So she said to Elijah, “[c](A)Why is my business any of yours, you (B)man of God? Yet you have come to me to bring my wrongdoing to remembrance, and to put my son to death!” 19 But he said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her [d]arms and carried him up to the upstairs room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 17:17 Lit illness
  2. 1 Kings 17:17 Lit breath was not left in him
  3. 1 Kings 17:18 Lit What to me and to you, an ancient idiom
  4. 1 Kings 17:19 Lit breast

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