World English Bible
1 Kings 17:20
“He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 17
18
She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!
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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 Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?
21
He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again.
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Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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