以利亚预言旱灾
1有一位先知名叫以利亚，是基列的提斯比人。他对亚哈说：“我凭我事奉的以色列的上帝——永活的耶和华起誓，如果我不祷告，这几年必没有雨水和甘露。” 2耶和华对以利亚说： 3“你离开这里，往东去，到约旦河以东的基立溪旁躲起来。 4你可以喝基立溪的水，我已吩咐乌鸦在那里供应你食物。” 5以利亚遵从耶和华的话，到约旦河东的基立溪旁住下来。 6乌鸦每天早晚为他叼来饼和肉，他喝溪里的水。
撒勒法的寡妇
7因为天旱无雨，过了些日子，溪水干了。 8耶和华对他说： 9“你去西顿的撒勒法，我已吩咐那里的一个寡妇供养你。” 10他来到撒勒法的城门口，看见一个寡妇在捡柴，就对她说：“请给我一点水喝。” 11那妇人去拿水的时候，以利亚又说：“请给我拿一点饼。” 12她说：“我凭你的上帝——永活的耶和华起誓，我没有饼，我坛里只有一把面，瓶里只有一点油。我来捡柴就是要回去做饼，与儿子吃完后，就只能等死了。”
13以利亚说：“不要害怕，你可以照你所说的去做饼，只是你要先做一小块饼给我，然后再做给你和你儿子。 14因为以色列的上帝耶和华说，‘在耶和华降雨之前，你坛里的面和瓶里的油必不会空。’” 15那妇人就依照以利亚的话做了。妇人一家和以利亚就这样吃了许多天， 16坛里的面没有用完，瓶里的油也没有用光，应验了耶和华借以利亚说的话。
17后来，妇人的儿子病了，病情越来越重，最后死了。 18妇人对以利亚说：“上帝的仆人啊，我跟你有什么关系？你到我这里来是要让上帝想起我的罪，取我儿子的性命吗？” 19以利亚对妇人说：“把你儿子交给我。”随后，他从妇人怀中接过孩子，抱到楼上自己的房间，放在床上。 20他向耶和华呼求道：“我的上帝耶和华啊，我寄居在这寡妇家里，你为什么降祸给她，夺去她儿子的性命呢？” 21他三次伏在孩子身上，求告耶和华说：“我的上帝耶和华啊，求你让这孩子活过来吧。” 22耶和华听了以利亚的祈求，孩子就活过来了。 23以利亚将孩子从楼上抱下来，交给他母亲，说：“看，你儿子活过来了！” 24妇人对以利亚说：“现在我知道你是上帝的仆人，耶和华借你口所说的都是真的。”
Elijah Announces a Great Drought
1Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe17:1 Or Tishbite, of the settlers in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
Elijah Fed by Ravens
2Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3“Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
5So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath
7Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 8Then the word of the Lord came to him: 9“Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” 10So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” 11As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
12“As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
13Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. 14For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’ ”
15She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. 16For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.
17Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. 18She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
19“Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. 20Then he cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?” 21Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”
22The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. 23Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!”
24Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.”
