World English Bible
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!”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 17
The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.
It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.
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!
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.
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?
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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