15She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.


In Context

12 "As surely as the Lord your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread-only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it-and die."

13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

14 For this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land.' "

15 She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.

16 For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.

17 Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.

1st Kings 17:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:15And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:15She went and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:15And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:15And she went and did according to the word of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate a whole year.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:15And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:15And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:15She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:15And she goeth, and doth according to the word of Elijah, and she eateth, she and he, and her household — days;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:15And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.