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1 Kings · read by Robert Arthur
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1 Kings 17
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Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!"Read from KJV · Elijah
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"Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.Read from KJV · Elijah
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And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."Read from KJV · Elijah
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So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.Read from KJV · Elijah
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The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.Read from KJV · Elijah
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Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.Read from KJV · Elijah
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"Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you."Read from KJV · Elijah
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So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink."Read from KJV · Elijah
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And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread."Read from KJV · Elijah
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But she replied, "As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die."Read from KJV · Elijah
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"Do not be afraid," Elijah said to her. "Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,Read from KJV · Elijah
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for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.'"Read from KJV · Elijah
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So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.Read from KJV · Elijah
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The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.Read from KJV · Elijah