13. Elijah said to her, “Do not be afraid. Go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake and bring it to me. Afterwards you can prepare something for yourself and your son.
14. For the Lord, the God of Israel, says: The jar of flour shall not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, until the day when the Lord sends rain upon the earth.”
15. She left and did as Elijah had said. She had enough to eat for a long time—he and she and her household.
16. The jar of flour did not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord spoken through Elijah.
17. Some time later the son of the woman, the owner of the house, fell sick, and his sickness grew more severe until he stopped breathing.
18. So she said to Elijah, “Why have you done this to me, man of God? Have you come to me to call attention to my guilt and to kill my son?”
19. Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” Taking him from her lap, he carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
20. He called out to the Lord: “Lord, my God, will you afflict even the widow with whom I am staying by killing her son?”
21. Then he stretched himself out upon the child three times and he called out to the Lord: “Lord, my God, let the life breath return to the body of this child.”
22. The Lord heard the prayer of Elijah; the life breath returned to the child’s body and he lived.
23. Taking the child, Elijah carried him down into the house from the upper room and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, “See! Your son is alive.”
24. The woman said to Elijah, “Now indeed I know that you are a man of God, and it is truly the word of the Lord that you speak.”