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.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 17:23 in context
1 Kings 17:20–24
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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?”
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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.
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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.”
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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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