Elijah and Elisha did pray: Difference between revisions

In 1 Kings 17, we read how the widow of Zarephath was provided oil and flour during the drought until the Lord sent rain upon the land.  The widow's son became ill and died and she accused Elijah of killing her son.

:''And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.  '''And he cried unto the LORD, and said''', O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?  And he stretched himself upon the child three times, '''and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee,''' let this child’s soul come into him again.  And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.  And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 1 Ki 17:19–24.</ref>