June 9, 2013, First Reading

First Kings 17:17-24

17 It happened after this that the son of the mistress of the house fell sick; his illness was so severe that in the end he expired.

18 And the woman said to Elijah, ‘What quarrel have you with me, man of God? Have you come here to bring my sins home to me and to kill my son?’

19 ‘Give me your son,’ he said and, taking him from her lap, he carried him to the upper room where he was staying and laid him on his bed.

20 He cried out to Yahweh, ‘Yahweh my God, by killing her son do you mean to bring grief even to the widow who is looking after me?’

21 He stretched himself on the child three times and cried out to Yahweh, ‘Yahweh my God, may the soul of this child, I beg you, come into him again!’

22 Yahweh heard Elijah’s prayer and the child’s soul came back into his body and he revived.

23 Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. ‘Look,’ Elijah said, ‘your son is alive.’

24 And the woman replied, ‘Now I know you are a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth itself.’


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