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1 Kings 17:17-24

After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill;
his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.  She then
said to Elijah, "What have you against me, O man of God?  You have come to
me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to cause the death of my son!"  But
he said to her, "Give me your son."  He took him from her bosom, carried
him up into the upper chamber where he was lodging, and laid him on his
own bed.  He cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have you brought
calamity even upon the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?"
Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried out to the
LORD, "O LORD my God, let this child's life come into him again."  The
LORD listened to the voice of Elijah; the life of the child came into him
again, and he revived.  Elijah took the child, brought him down from the
upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; then Elijah
said, "See, your son is alive."  So the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know
that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is
truth."