When Solomon, the king of Israel, son of David, left God and served other gods, God divided Israel into two nations. When Ahab, the king of North Israel who looked like that, served his idol, God said he would not let it rain in North Israel for the next few years. Elijah the prophet delivered these words of God to King Ahab, and the king was angry and tried to hurt Elijah.

God told Elijah that if he went east and hid in the stream of Jordan River and drank the stream, he would let the crows carry him food. As God said, the crows delivered Elijah rice cakes and meat in the morning and evening, and drank the stream.



But when it did not rain and the stream dried up, God told Elijah to go to Sarbat, the land of Sidon, to meet a poor widow and stay there.

A woman was picking up firewood when Elijah arrived at the gate. Elijah called the woman and asked her for water and a piece of rice cake, and she replied.

"All I have is a handful of flour and a few drops of oil, and with this firewood I'm going to eat everything that's left before my son and I die.”

Elijah told me to make food and bring it to me first and then make food for you and your son. I told God that if you do so, flour and oil will not fall from your house until it rains again. When the woman obeyed the word, everything was done as the Lord said.



When her son became ill and died, she said to Elijah in sorrow.

"What do you have to do with me to come to me and make my son die like this because of my sins?”

Elijah went up to the attic where he was staying with his dead son, laid him on the bed, and cried out to God.

"God, why do you bring disaster to the widow of this house where I am staying, and make my son die? Please, save this child!"

When God heard the sound, he saved the child, and Elijah came down from the attic and gave it back to the woman.

She finally confessed to Elijah.

"Now I know that you are the man of God and your word is the word of God."

(1 Kings 17)