1 Kings 17:23

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

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  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37 : 36 Elisha called Gehazi and said, 'Call the Shunammite woman.' So he called her, and when she came, he said, 'Take your son.' 37 She came, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.
  • Luke 7:15 : 15 The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.
  • Acts 9:41 : 41 Peter gave her his hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and the widows and presented her to them alive.
  • Heb 11:35 : 35 Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:15-22
    8 verses
    88%

    15She went and did according to what Elijah said, and she, Elijah, and her household ate for many days.

    16The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run dry, as the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah had declared.

    17After this, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick. His illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

    18She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, man of God? Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?"

    19Elijah said to her, "Give me your son." He took the boy from her arms, brought him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

    20Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy upon the widow I am staying with by causing her son to die?"

    21Elijah stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, please let the boy’s life return to him."

    22The LORD heard Elijah’s prayer, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    81%

    24Then the woman said to Elijah, 'Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.'

  • 2 Kgs 4:34-37
    4 verses
    78%

    34Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched out over him, the boy’s flesh grew warm.

    35Elisha got up and walked back and forth in the house. Then he went up and stretched out over the boy again. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

    36Elisha called Gehazi and said, 'Call the Shunammite woman.' So he called her, and when she came, he said, 'Take your son.'

    37She came, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

  • 2 Kgs 4:30-32
    3 verses
    77%

    30But the boy’s mother said, 'As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.' So he got up and followed her.

    31Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, 'The boy has not awakened.'

    32When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the boy, lying dead on his bed.

  • 2 Kgs 4:17-21
    5 verses
    77%

    17But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the appointed time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.

    18The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

    19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

    20The servant carried the boy to his mother, and the child sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

    21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11As she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand as well."

    12But she replied, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked. I only have a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a couple of sticks to go and prepare it for myself and my son so we may eat it and then die."

    13Elijah said to her, "Do not be afraid. Go and do as you have said, but first make a small cake for me from what you have and bring it to me. Then make some for yourself and your son."

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    74%

    5As Gehazi was recounting how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had restored came to cry out to the king about her house and her land. Gehazi said, "My lord the king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life!"

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
    73%

    15The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, 'Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.' So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.

  • 2 Kgs 1:13
    72%

    13A third time, the king sent a captain with fifty men. This third captain approached, fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, 'Man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your eyes.'

  • Luke 7:15
    72%

    15The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

  • John 4:51
    72%

    51While he was on his way down, his servants met him and told him, "Your son is alive!"

  • 1 Kgs 18:11
    72%

    11Now you tell me, 'Go and say to your master, Elijah is here!'

  • 1 Kgs 17:2
    71%

    2And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
    71%

    1Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, take your household, and go live in whatever place you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    71%

    8Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 13:21
    71%

    21Once, while some Israelites were burying a man, they suddenly saw a band of raiders. So they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

  • 2 Kgs 1:17
    71%

    17So Ahaziah died, just as the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken had declared. Since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him as king in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I looked more closely at him in the morning light, I saw that it was not the son I had borne.

    22The other woman said, 'No, the living one is my son, and the dead one is yours.' But the first woman insisted, 'No, the dead one is your son, and the living one is mine.' And so they argued before the king.

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
    70%

    27Then the king gave his ruling: 'Give the living child to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.'

  • 2 Kgs 2:6
    70%

    6Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1
    70%

    1A certain woman, the wife of one of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. Now the creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves."

  • 1 Kgs 21:17
    70%

    17Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 2:4
    70%

    4Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho." But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Jericho.

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
    70%

    12Now, get up and go back to your house. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

  • 2 Kgs 2:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. 'Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

    15The company of the prophets from Jericho saw him from a distance and said, 'The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.' And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

  • 2 Kgs 2:2
    70%

    2Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Bethel." But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Bethel.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    70%

    7She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left."

  • 2 Sam 14:11
    70%

    11She said, "Let the king swear by the LORD your God that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy and that they will not eliminate my son." The king said, "As surely as the LORD lives, not one hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground."

  • 2 Kgs 1:4
    70%

    4Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will surely die.' And Elijah departed.

  • 2 Kgs 4:26
    69%

    26Now run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' And she answered, 'Everything is all right.'