16 The [a]bowl of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil become empty, in accordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke through Elijah.

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 [b]condition became very grave, until at the end [c]he was no longer breathing. 18 So she said to Elijah, “[d](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!”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 17:16 Lit pitcher
  2. 1 Kings 17:17 Lit illness
  3. 1 Kings 17:17 Lit breath was not left in him
  4. 1 Kings 17:18 Lit What to me and to you, an ancient idiom

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