1 Kings · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
1 Kings 17 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Entonces Elías tisbita, que era de los moradores de Galaad, dijo a Acab: ¡Vive Yavé, ʼElohim de Israel, en cuya presencia estoy! ¡No habrá rocío ni lluvia en estos años, sino por mi palabra!
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 La Palabra de Yavé vino a él:
2 Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
3 Apártate de aquí, dirígete al oriente y escóndete junto al arroyo de Querit que está frente al Jordán.
3 “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
4 Sucederá que beberás del arroyo, y Yo mandé a los cuervos que te sustenten allí.
4 You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5 Fue e hizo según la Palabra de Yavé, pues salió y vivió junto al arroyo de Querit, que está frente al Jordán.
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 Los cuervos le llevaban pan y carne por la mañana y al llegar la noche, y bebía del arroyo.
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 Sucedió que al pasar los días se secó el arroyo, porque no llovía en la tierra.
7 After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
8 Y la Palabra de Yavé vino a Elías:
8 Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
9 Levántate, vé a Sarepta de Sidón y vive allí. Mira, Yo ordené a una viuda de allá que te sustente.
9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
10 Él se levantó y fue a Sarepta. Cuando llegó a la puerta de la ciudad, ciertamente una viuda estaba allí y recogía leña. Él la llamó y le dijo: Te ruego que me traigas un poco de agua en un vaso para beber.
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 Cuando iba a llevársela, él la volvió a llamar y le dijo: Te ruego que me traigas un bocado de pan en tu mano.
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 Pero ella respondió: ¡Vive Yavé tu ʼElohim, que no tengo pan cocido! Solamente tengo un puñado de harina en una tinaja y un poco de aceite en la vasija. Y mira, recogía un par de leños para entrar y prepararlo para mí y mi hijo a fin de que comamos y muramos.
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 Elías le dijo: No temas. Vé, haz como dijiste, solo que de ello me hagas primero una torta pequeña y tráemela. Después harás para ti y para tu hijo,
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 porque Yavé, ʼElohim de Israel, dice: La harina de la tinaja no se acabará, ni el aceite de la vasija disminuirá hasta el día cuando Yavé mande lluvia sobre la superficie de la tierra.
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 Ella fue e hizo según la palabra de Elías, y comieron él, ella, y su casa muchos días.
15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days.
16 La harina de la tinaja no se acabó, ni el aceite de la vasija disminuyó, conforme a la Palabra que Yavé habló por medio de Elías.
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 Después de estas cosas, aconteció que el hijo de la mujer dueña de casa cayó enfermo. Su enfermedad fue tan grave que no quedó aliento en él.
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 Ella preguntó a Elías: ¿Qué tengo yo contigo, varón de ʼElohim? ¿Viniste aquí a recordarme mis iniquidades y para que muera mi hijo?
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 Y él le respondió: ¡Dame tu hijo! Lo tomó del seno de ella, lo llevó al altillo donde él vivía y lo acostó en su propia cama.
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 Clamó a Yavé: ¡Oh Yavé, ʼElohim mío! ¿Aun afliges a la viuda en cuya casa estoy hospedado, al matar a su hijo?
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 Luego se tendió tres veces sobre el niño y clamó a Yavé: ¡Oh Yavé, ʼElohim mío, te ruego: Devuelve la vida de este niño a él!
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 Yavé escuchó la voz de Elías, y el alma del niño volvió a él y revivió.
22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23 Entonces Elías tomó al niño, lo bajó del altillo de la casa, lo entregó a su madre y dijo: ¡Mira, tu hijo está vivo!
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 Y la mujer dijo a Elías: ¡Ahora sé que tú eres varón de ʼElohim y que la Palabra de Yavé en tu boca es verdad!
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.”
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Elijah the Tishbite
A prophet among the settlers of Gilead who announced a drought to Ahab, was fed by ravens, revived the widow's son at Zarephath, defeated Baal's prophets on Mount Carmel, heard…
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:36; 1 Kings 19:9
The widow of Zarephath
A widow of Zarephath of Sidon, commanded by the LORD to provide for Elijah, whose jar of flour and jug of oil did not run out and whose son Elijah brought back to life.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 17:9; 1 Kings 17:10; 1 Kings 17:20
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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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)