But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
The child dies though fed by miracle, and the widow loses her only comfort in widowhood. Mark this: even when we serve God faithfully and receive His clearest favours, sharp afflictions come. Our mountain never stands so strong but it may be moved; therefore rejoice with trembling always in this world.
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Commenting on 1 Kings 17:17-24
And he cried unto the Lord,.... Or prayed unto him, as the Targum, with great vehemence and importunity: and said, O Lord, my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow, with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
1Ki 17:19-20 Elijah told her to carry the dead child up to the chamber in which he lived and lay it upon his bed, and then cried to the Lord, “Jehovah, my God! hast Thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, to slay her son?” These words, in which the word also refers to the other calamities occasioned by the drought...
Commenting on 1 Kings 17:19-20