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Good News Translation

1 Kings 17:22

The Lord answered Elijah's prayer; the child started breathing again and revived.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Dead (People);   Elijah;   Hospitality;   Intercession;   Miracles;   Poor;   Prayer;   Women;   Zarephath;   Thompson Chain Reference - Association-Separation;   Body;   Contact;   Elijah;   Miracles;   Mortality-Immortality;   Personal Contact;   Power;   Prayer;   Resurrection;   Resurrections;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dead, the;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miracle;   Zarephath;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Resurrection;   Soul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elijah;   Heal, Health;   Miracle;   Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Elijah;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prayer;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Resurrection;   Zarephath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Haggai;   Revive;   Zarephath;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Elijah;   Zarephath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Elijah;   Elisha;   Psychology;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amittai;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Lord listened to Elijah, and the boy’s life came into him again, and he lived.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD listened to the voice of Eliyah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
King James Version
And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
English Standard Version
And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.
New Century Version
The Lord answered Elijah's prayer; the boy began breathing again and was alive.
New English Translation
The Lord answered Elijah's prayer; the boy's breath returned to him and he lived.
Amplified Bible
The LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived.
New American Standard Bible
And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the boy returned to him and he revived.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Lord heard the voyce of Eliiah, and the soule of the child came into him againe, and he reuiued.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Yahweh heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he became alive.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord answered Elijah's prayer, and the boy started breathing again.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai heard Eliyahu's cry, the child's soul came back into him, and he revived.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he lived.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord answered Elijah's prayer. The boy began breathing again and was alive.
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the boy returned into him again, and he revived.
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned within him, and he lived.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah listened to the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the boy returned to him, and he lived.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE herde the voyce of Elias. And the soule of the childe came agayne vnto him, & he reuyued.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lord heard the voyce of Elias, & the soule of the childe came into him againe, and he reuiued.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD hearkened unto the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back into him, and he revived.
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord heard the voice of Eliiah, and the soule of the child came into him againe, and he reuiued.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it was so, and the child cried out,
English Revised Version
And the LORD hearkened unto the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child's life returned to him, and he lived.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord herde the vois of Elie, and the soule of the child turnede ayen with ynne hym, and he lyuede ayen.
Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah hearkeneth to the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the lad turneth back into his midst, and he liveth.
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
World English Bible
Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
New King James Version
Then the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived.
New Living Translation
The Lord heard Elijah's prayer, and the life of the child returned, and he revived!
New Life Bible
The Lord heard the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child returned to him and he became strong again.
New Revised Standard
The Lord listened to the voice of Elijah; the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh hearkened unto the voice of Elijah, - and the life of the boy came again within him, and he lived.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.
Revised Standard Version
And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Eli'jah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived.

Contextual Overview

17 Some time later the widow's son got sick; he got worse and worse, and finally he died. 18 She said to Elijah, "Man of God, why did you do this to me? Did you come here to remind God of my sins and so cause my son's death?" 19 "Give the boy to me," Elijah said. He took the boy from her arms, carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying, and laid him on the bed. 20 Then he prayed aloud, "O Lord my God, why have you done such a terrible thing to this widow? She has been kind enough to take care of me, and now you kill her son!" 21 Then Elijah stretched himself out on the boy three times and prayed, "O Lord my God, restore this child to life!" 22 The Lord answered Elijah's prayer; the child started breathing again and revived. 23 Elijah took the boy back downstairs to his mother and said to her, "Look, your son is alive!" 24 She answered, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the Lord really speaks through you!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

into him: Heb. into his inward parts

and he revived: Deuteronomy 32:39, 1 Samuel 2:6, 2 Kings 13:21, Luke 8:54, John 5:28, John 5:29, John 11:43, Acts 20:12, Romans 14:9, Revelation 11:11

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:35 - and the child opened Acts 20:10 - and fell Hebrews 11:35 - Women

Cross-References

Genesis 17:3
Abram bowed down with his face touching the ground, and God said,
Genesis 17:6
I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.
Genesis 17:8
I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."
Genesis 17:9
God said to Abraham, "You also must agree to keep the covenant with me, both you and your descendants in future generations.
Genesis 17:15
God said to Abraham, "You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah.
Genesis 18:33
After he had finished speaking with Abraham, the Lord went away, and Abraham returned home.
Exodus 20:22
The Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites: "You have seen how I, the Lord , have spoken to you from heaven.
Deuteronomy 5:4
There on the mountain the Lord spoke to you face-to-face from the fire.
Judges 6:21
Then the Lord 's angel reached out and touched the meat and the bread with the end of the stick he was holding. Fire came out of the rock and burned up the meat and the bread. Then the angel disappeared.
Judges 13:20
While the flames were going up from the altar, Manoah and his wife saw the Lord 's angel go up toward heaven in the flames. Manoah realized then that the man had been the Lord 's angel, and he and his wife threw themselves face downward on the ground. They never saw the angel again.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah,.... In prayer, and answered it:

and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived; this is the first instance of anyone being raised from the dead; this Satan has imitated; hence the many fabulous stories with the Heathens of persons being raised to life after death k.

k Vid. Huet. Alnetan. Quaest. l. 2. c. 12. sect. 30.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 17:22. And the soul — נפש nephesh, of the child came into him again, על קרבו al kirbo, into the midst of him; and he revived, ויח vaiyechi, and he became alive. Did he not become alive from the circumstance of the immaterial principle coming again into him?

Although רוח ruach is sometimes put for the breath, yet נפש generally means the immortal spirit, and where it seems to refer to animal life alone, it is only such a life as is the immediate and necessary effect of the presence of the immortal spirit.

The words and mode of expression here appear to me a strong proof, not only of the existence of an immortal and immaterial spirit in man, but also that that spirit can and does exist in a separate state from the body. It is here represented as being in the midst of the child, like a spring in the centre of a machine, which gives motion to every part, and without which the whole would stand still.


 
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