1 Kings 17:20
He cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
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Genesis 38:7Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight. So the LORD killed him.
Exodus 17:4Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
1 Samuel 7:8The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
2 Kings 4:33He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to the LORD.
2 Kings 19:15Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, “LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Psalms 73:13Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
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 →