19. “Give the boy to me,” Elijah said. He took the boy from her arms, carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying, and laid him on the bed.
20. Then he prayed aloud, “O Lord my God, why have you done such a terrible thing to this widow? She has been kind enough to take care of me, and now you kill her son!”
21. Then Elijah stretched himself out on the boy three times and prayed, “O Lord my God, restore this child to life!”
22. The Lord answered Elijah's prayer; the child started breathing again and revived.
23. Elijah took the boy back downstairs to his mother and said to her, “Look, your son is alive!”
24. She answered, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the Lord really speaks through you!”