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. Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
3. “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
4. You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
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. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
7. After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
8. Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
9. “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
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. As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12. She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but 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.”