◄ 1 Kings 17:21 ►
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Good News Translation
Then Elijah stretched himself out on the boy three times and prayed, "O LORD my God, restore this child to life!"

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
Elijah stretched himself out over the boy three times, while praying, "LORD God, bring this boy back to life!"

New American Bible
Then he stretched himself out upon the child three times and he called out to the LORD: “LORD, my God, let the life breath return to the body of this child.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.

2 Kings 4:33-35 And going in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord. . . .

Acts 10:10 And being hungry, he was desirous to taste somewhat. And as they were preparing, there came upon him an ecstasy of mind.

O Lord my God.

Acts 9:40 And they all being put forth, Peter, kneeling down, prayed. And turning to the body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes and, seeing Peter, sat up.

Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.

Context
Elijah Raises the Widow's Son
…20And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort maintained, so as to kill her son? 21And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.22And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.…
Cross References
Acts 20:10
To whom, when Paul had gone down, he laid himself upon him and, embracing him, said: Be not troubled, for his soul is in him.

1 Kings 17:20
And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort maintained, so as to kill her son?

2 Kings 4:34
And he went up, and lay upon the child: and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he bowed himself upon him, and the child's flesh grew warm.

2 Kings 4:35
Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he went up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened his eyes.

1 Kings 17:20
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