I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 367
The History of the People of Israel
Lxvmc said, and settled near the brook Kcrith, which runs into the ordan, and the Arabs brought him read and meat in the morning, and
bread and meat in the evening, but he drank from the brook. After a time, however, the brook dried up, for there were no showers in the land. Then the message of the EVER-
Arisel Go to Zarafthah, which belongs to Zidon, and stay there; because I have instructed a widow · woman there to provide for you. (ac, 907.) Glinly mth tbz Winnie 11 12 nf Znrafihnly. let me drink. He therefore arose and went to
Zarafthah and arrived at the neigh- bourhood of the city, and there saw a widow-woman gathering sticks, Bring me, I pray, a little water in a cup, and And she went to fetch it, when he
Bring me, I beg, a. mouthful of bread in your By the life of
your Even-1.1vm<; Gon, there is nothing in the house ‘ with me, except a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise, and I was gathering a few sticks, and was going to bake ityfor myself and my son; and to eat it,—and diel Fear
not! Go and make as you have said.-—-Yet also make me from it a little cake first, and bring it to me; then go and make for your son after- wards, for thus says the Even- LIVING, the ' G0!) of Israel, f'l`he barrel of meal shall not be spent and the cruise of oil not fail, until the time the Evita-1.1vmo gives rain upon the surface of the ground! She accordingly went and did as
Eliah told her; and she and her family ate again, and again, from
16 that period. The barrel of meal was not spent, and the cruse of oil did The word ¤`;`°]Y» Arabim, was erro-
by the Greek versloners, and the blunder, as usual, has been repeated since. It means Arabs, as I have translated in my text.——F. F. not fail, according to the word of the EvER—L1vtNG that He spoke by means of Eliah. dbz Wihultfr Sm: brrnmrs ill. It was after these events that the
son of the woman, mistress of the house, became ill, and his illness was very severe, so that there was no breath left in him. Then she said to Man of Gon, why have you come to me to bring my failings to remembrance, and to kill my son 2 ’ Give me your
And she brought him in her arms, and he carried him up to the chamber where he lodged, and laid him upon his own bed, and called to the Evan-1.xvmc, and said, Even-1.1vmo Gon, will You also
bring suffering upon the widow with whom I stay, and kill her son ? ’ Then he bent over the lad three
times, and called upon the Even- Evan-1.1vmo Gon, restore, I beg, the soul of this And the Evan- L1v1NG listened to the voice of Eliah, and restored the soul of the lad to his breast, and he- was alive. Then Eliah took the lad and descended from the chamber to the house, and gave him to his mother. Eliah then Seel Your son is alive! When the woman replied to Eliah, Now, by this I know that you are a
Man of GOD, and that the EvERe LWXNG speaks by your mouth. 18 V9 24* gi zz (ac. 906.) mini; nrhzrrh ismret Qlynltg When many days had passed, the 18 message of the Event-Ltvmt; came to Eliah in the third year to say, ‘ Go, see. Akhab; when I will give rain on the face of the ground. He went therefore to see Akhab. 2 Qc Meets Ohahiab mt the mm;. T he famine was by now terrible in
Shomeron; and Akhabhad summoned Abadiah who was over his palace, (although Abadiah reverenced the EVER-LIVING greatly, and when Aisabel cut off the Preachers of the Even-Lxvmc, Abadiah took a hun- dred Preachers and hid them by fifty in a cave and supplied them with bread and water), and Akhab Go through the country to all the springs of water, 307
