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Chapter Six | I will preserve you
Let there be rain!
Then Elijah said to Ahab, Go and enjoy a good meal! For I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!... And sure enough, the sky was soon black with clouds. A heavy wind brought a terrific rainstorm, and Ahab left quickly for Jezreel
Pay your dues
Bitterness into sweetness
Now the leaders of the town of Jericho visited Elisha, We have a problem, my lord, they told him. This town is located in beautiful natural surroundings, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unproductive. Elisha said, Bring me a new bowl with salt in it. So they brought it to him. Then he went out to the spring that supplied the town with water and threw the salt into it. And he said, This is what the Lord says: I have made this water wholesome. It will no longer cause death or infertility. And sure enough! The water has remained wholesome ever since, just as Elisha said
Come and eat
Later Elisha asked Gehazi, What do you think we can do for her? He suggested, she doesnt have a son, and her husband is an old man. Call her back again, Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway, Next year at about this time you will be holding a son in your arm!..
Give me a guarantee
Now swear to me by the Lord that you will be kind to me and my family since I have helped you. Give me some guarantee that when Jericho is conquered, you will let me live, along with my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all their families | We offer our own lives as a guarantee for your safety; the men agreed. if you dont betray us, we will keep our promise when the Lord gives us the land..... Before they left, the men told her, we can guarantee your safety only if you leave this scarlet rope hanging from the window. And all your family members - your father, mother, brothers and your relatives-must be here inside the house.
Where you go I will go
Where you go I will go
But Ruth replied, Dont ask me to leave you and turn back. I will go wherever you go and live wherever you live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. I will die where you die and will be buried there. May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!
Yes, I know, Boaz replied but I also know about the love and kindness you have shown your mother-in-law since the death of your husband. I have heard how you left your father and mother and your own land to live here among complete strangers. May the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge reward you fully
Chapter Seven | Cook that last meal
So he went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the gates of the village, he saw a window gathering sticks, and he asked her, Would you please bring me a cup of water? As she was going to get it, he called to her, Bring me a bite of bread too. But she said, I swear by the LORD your God that I dont have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of a jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die. | But Elijah said to her, Dont be afraid! Go ahead and cook that last meal, but bake me a little loaf of bread first. Afterwards there will still be enough food for you and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There will always be plenty of flour and oil left in your containers until the time when the LORD sends rain and the crops grow again.
Some time later, the womans son became sick. He grew worse and worse, and finally he died. She then said to Elijah, O man of God, what have you done to me? Have you come here to punish my sins by killing my son? But Elijah replied Give me your son. And he took the boys body from her, carried him up to the upper room, where he lived and laid the body on his bed. Then Elijah cried out to the Lord, O Lord my God, why have you brought tragedy on this window who has opened her home to me, causing her son to die? | And he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the Lord, O Lord my God, please let this childs life return to him. The Lord heard Elijahs prayer and the life of the child returned and he came back to life! Then Elijah brought him down from the upper room and gave him to his mother. Look, your son is alive! He said.
Few loaves and a little fish
Others
So Potiphar gave Joseph complete administration responsibility over everything he owned. With Joseph there, he didnt have a worry in the world, except to decide what he wanted to eat. Now Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man, and about this time, Potiphars wife began to desire him and invited him to sleep with her. But Joseph refused. Look! He told her, my master trusts me with everything in his entire household. No one here has more authority than I do! He had held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I ever do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God.