1 Kings 17:19-24

19 He said to her, "Give me your son." Elijah took him from her arms, carried him to the upstairs room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

20 Then he called to the LORD, "LORD my God, have you brought misery on the widow I'm staying with by killing her son?"

21 Then Elijah stretched himself over the boy three times and called to the LORD, "LORD my God, please make this child's life return to him."

22 The LORD heard Elijah's request, and the child's life returned to him. He was alive again.

23 Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upstairs room of the house, and gave him to his mother. He said, "Look! Your son is alive."

24 The woman said to Elijah, "Now I'm convinced that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is true."

1 Kings 17:19-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 17

This chapter begins with a prophecy of Elijah, that there should be want of rain for some years to come, and he is directed to go first to the brook Cherith, where he should be fed by ravens, 1Ki 17:1-7, and afterwards he is sent to a widow at Zarephath, where he, she, and her son, were supported for a considerable time with a handful of meal, and a little oil in a cruse miraculously increased, 1Ki 17:8-16, whose son falling sick and dying, he restored to life, 1Ki 17:17-24.