1 Kings · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
1 Kings 17 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 And Elias the Thesbite of the inhabitants of Galaad said to Achab: As the Lord liveth the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.
1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
2 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
2 Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
3 Get thee hence, and go towards the east and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan,
3 “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
4 And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
4 You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5 So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.
5 So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.
6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of tile torrent.
6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
7 But after some time the torrent was dried up, for it had not rained upon the earth.
7 After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
8 Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
9 Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.
9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
10 He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
11 And when she was going to fetch it he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
11 As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12 And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse: behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
12 She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
13 And Elias said to her: Fear not, but go, and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me: and after make for thyself and thy son.
13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.
14 For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruse of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.
14 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”
15 She went and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day
15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days.
16 The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.
16 The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.
17 And it came to pass after this that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.
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 And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?
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 And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
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 And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a so maintained, so as to kill her son?
20 He cried to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
21 And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.
21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.
22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23 And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth.
23 Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
24 And the woman said to Elias: Now, by this I know that thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.
24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Luke 4:25–26; James 5:17; Luke 1:17; 1 Kings 22:14; 2 Kings 3:14
- 2 Jeremiah 18:1; Jeremiah 11:1; 1 Chronicles 17:3; Hosea 1:1–2; 1 Kings 12:22
- 3 Jeremiah 36:26; Psalm 31:20; Revelation 12:6; Hebrews 11:38; Psalm 83:3
- 4 1 Kings 17:9; Psalm 147:9; Job 38:41; 1 Kings 19:5–8; Matthew 4:4
- 5 Matthew 16:24; John 15:14; Proverbs 3:5; 1 Kings 19:9
- 6 Psalm 78:23–24; Matthew 6:31–33; Jeremiah 37:21; Psalm 78:15–16; Matthew 14:19–21
- 7 Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 40:30–31
- 8 Genesis 22:14; 1 Kings 17:2; Hebrews 13:6; Isaiah 41:17
- 9 Luke 4:26; Obadiah 20; 2 Corinthians 4:7; 1 Kings 17:4; Matthew 15:21–22
- 10 John 4:7; Genesis 24:17; Hebrews 11:37; 2 Corinthians 11:27; Genesis 21:15
- 11 Genesis 24:18–19; Hebrews 13:2; Genesis 18:5; 1 Kings 18:4; Matthew 25:35–40
- 12 Matthew 15:33–34; 1 Kings 17:1; 2 Kings 4:2–7; Genesis 21:16; Ezekiel 12:18–19
- 13 Malachi 3:10; Matthew 6:33; Judges 7:5–7; Matthew 28:5; Proverbs 3:9
- 14 Matthew 15:36–38; Matthew 14:17–20; 2 Kings 4:42–44; 2 Kings 3:16; 2 Kings 7:1
- 15 Genesis 6:22; Matthew 15:28; Hebrews 11:17; Mark 12:43; Romans 4:19–20
- 16 Matthew 9:28–30; Luke 1:37; John 4:50–51; Matthew 19:26; 1 Kings 16:12
- 17 James 1:12; John 11:14; James 1:2–4; Job 34:14; John 11:3–4
- 18 Luke 5:8; Luke 4:34; John 2:4; 2 Kings 3:13; 2 Samuel 16:10
- 19 2 Kings 4:32; Acts 9:37; 2 Kings 4:10; 2 Kings 4:21
- 20 James 5:15–18; Matthew 21:22; 1 Samuel 7:8–9; Exodus 17:4; 2 Kings 19:15
- 21 Acts 20:10; Acts 9:40; 2 Kings 4:33–35; Hebrews 11:19; Acts 10:10
- 22 Revelation 11:11; Deuteronomy 32:39; John 5:28–29; Hebrews 11:35; Romans 14:9
- 23 2 Kings 4:36–37; Luke 7:15; Acts 9:41; Hebrews 11:35
- 24 John 16:30; John 2:11; John 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 John 2:21
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Not even His servant Elias, to whom He sent bread and flesh by the ravens upon a certain occasion had need of this; and yet that a religious widow might be blessed, the servant of God is sent, and he whom God in secret did feed, is fed by the widow.
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