1 Kings 17:22

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The LORD answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

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  • Deut 32:39 : 39 The Vindication of the Lord“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the LORD,“and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.
  • 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The LORD both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.
  • 2 Kgs 13:21 : 21 One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.
  • Luke 8:54 : 54 But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said,“Child, get up.”
  • John 5:28-29 : 28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and will come out– the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
  • John 11:43 : 43 When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice,“Lazarus, come out!”
  • Acts 20:12 : 12 They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.
  • Rom 14:9 : 9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Heb 11:35 : 35 and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.
  • Rev 11:11 : 11 But after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized those who were watching them.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:17-21
    5 verses
    90%

    17After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

    18She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”

    19He said to her,“Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.

    20Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

    21He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”

  • 1 Kgs 17:23-24
    2 verses
    88%

    23Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said,“See, your son is alive!”

    24The woman said to Elijah,“Now I know that you are a prophet and that the LORD’s message really does come through you.”

  • 2 Kgs 4:30-37
    8 verses
    77%

    30The mother of the child said,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha got up and followed her back.

    31Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha he told him,“The child did not wake up.”

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

    33He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the LORD.

    34He got up on the bed and spread his body out over the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin grew warm.

    35Elisha went back and walked around in the house. Then he got up on the bed again and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

    36Elisha called to Gehazi and said,“Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so and she came to him. He said to her,“Take your son.”

    37She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.

  • 2 Kgs 13:21
    73%

    21One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.

  • 2 Kgs 4:17-20
    4 verses
    72%

    17The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

    18The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

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

    20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.

  • 1 Kgs 17:2
    71%

    2The LORD’s message came to him:

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    70%

    8The LORD’s message came to him,

  • 2 Kgs 1:13
    70%

    13The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy,“Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    70%

    5While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. Gehazi said,“My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

  • 2 Kgs 1:17
    70%

    17And he did die in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Elijah. In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son.

  • Luke 7:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said,“Young man, I say to you, get up!”

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

  • 1 Sam 2:6
    69%

    6The LORD both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    69%

    22He replied,“While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,‘Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.

  • 1 Kgs 21:17
    68%

    17The LORD’S message came to Elijah the Tishbite:

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
    68%

    15The LORD’s angel said to Elijah,“Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down with him to the king.

  • 2 Kgs 2:13-15
    3 verses
    68%

    13He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.

    14He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, hit the water with it, and said,“Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.

    15When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, who were standing at a distance, saw him do this, they said,“The spirit that energized Elijah rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:37
    68%

    37Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are the true God and that you are winning back their allegiance.”

  • 2 Kgs 2:4
    67%

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

  • 1 Kgs 18:30
    67%

    30Elijah then told all the people,“Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    67%

    28The LORD’s message came to Elijah the Tishbite,

  • 2 Kgs 2:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1Elijah Makes a Swift Departure Just before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

    2Elijah told Elisha,“Stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

  • 2 Kgs 2:6
    67%

    6Elijah said to him,“Stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.

  • John 4:51
    67%

    51While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live.

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
    67%

    12“As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

  • 1 Kgs 19:9
    67%

    9He went into a cave there and spent the night. All of a sudden the LORD’s message came to him,“Why are you here, Elijah?”

  • 2 Kgs 2:22
    67%

    22The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied.

  • 1 Kgs 17:13
    67%

    13Elijah said to her,“Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make me a small cake and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

  • 2 Sam 14:11
    67%

    11She replied,“In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not add to the killing! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied,“As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

  • Luke 8:55
    67%

    55Her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. Then he told them to give her something to eat.

  • 1 Kgs 19:13
    66%

    13When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden a voice asked him,“Why are you here, Elijah?”

  • 1 Kgs 3:21
    66%

    21I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”