1 Kings 17:23
Elijah carried the boy down the steps and gave him to his mother. He said, “Look, your son is alive!”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
22Yahweh heard what Elijah prayed, and he caused the boy to become alive again [DOU].
Cross References
2 Kings 4:36Then Elisha summoned Gehazi. He said, “Call the boy’s mother!” So Gehazi went and called her, and when she came in, Elisha said, “Here, take your son!”
John 4:51The next day while he was on the way home, his servants met him. They told him, “Your child is going to live!”
Hebrews 11:35Some women who trusted God received their relatives back again when God ◄ made them live again after they had died/raised them from the dead►. But others who trusted God were tortured until they died. They were tortured because they refused to agree when their captors said, “We will release you if you deny that you believe in God.” They refused to do that, because they wanted to live with God forever, which is better than continuing to live on earth after having almost died.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 17:18-24
The Widow's Child Raised to Life. ( b. c. 908.) 17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. 18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? 19 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… Read the whole commentary →