12. And she said, As the Lord your God lives, I have not a loaf baked but only a handful of meal in the jar and a little oil in the bottle. See, 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.
13. Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you have said. But make me a little cake of [it] first and bring it to me, and afterward prepare some for yourself and your son.
14. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: The jar of meal shall not waste away or the bottle of oil fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth.
15. She did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days.
16. The jar of meal was not spent nor did the bottle of oil fail, according to the word which the Lord spoke through Elijah.
17. After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
18. And she said to Elijah, What have you against me, O man of God? Have you come to me to call my sin to remembrance and to slay my son?
19. He said to her, Give me your son. And he took him from her bosom and carried him up into the chamber where he stayed and laid him upon his own bed.
20. And Elijah cried to the Lord and said, O Lord my God, have You brought further calamity upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
21. And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord and said, O Lord my God, I pray You, let this child's soul come back into him.
22. And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23. And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the [lower part of the] house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, See, your son is alive!
24. And the woman said to Elijah, By this I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.