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1 Kings 17:19 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed. "

1 Kings 17:19

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17 After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

18 She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

19 He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

20 He cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

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"Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”"

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1 Kings 17:1

"Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”"

1 Kings 17:2

"Then the LORD’s word came to him, saying,"

1 Kings 17:3

"“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan."

1 Kings 17:4

"You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”"

1 Kings 17:5

"So he went and did according to the LORD’s word, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan."

1 Kings 17:6

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

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