OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 22

1 Kings 17:22

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The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

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1 Kings 17:19–24

19

He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

20

He cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

21

He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

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The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

23

Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”

24

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the LORD’s word in your mouth is truth.”

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