Fed by Ravens and a Widow

Elijah the Tishbite told Ahab that as the Lord lives, there would be no dew or rain these years except by his word. This was a direct challenge to Baal, who was worshiped as the god of storms. God sent Elijah to hide by the brook Cherith, where ravens brought him bread and meat morning and evening.

When the brook dried up, God sent Elijah to Zarephath in Sidon, Jezebel's home country. A widow had only a handful of meal and a little oil and was preparing a last meal. Elijah told her not to be afraid but to make him a small cake first. God's word promised the jar of meal would not run out, nor the oil fail, until rain came. She did as Elijah said, and they ate for many days.

Later her son became sick until there was no breath left in him. She asked if Elijah had come to bring her sin to remembrance. Elijah carried the boy to the upper room, stretched himself on him three times, and cried to the Lord to let his life return. The Lord listened, and the child revived. The woman said that now she knew Elijah was a man of God and that God's word in his mouth was truth.