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Literal Standard Version

1 Kings 17:23

And Elijah takes the boy, and brings him down from the upper chamber of the house, and gives him to his mother, and Elijah says, "See, your son lives!"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Dead (People);   Elijah;   Hospitality;   Intercession;   Miracles;   Poor;   Women;   Zarephath;   Thompson Chain Reference - Elijah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upstairs room into the house, and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, “Look, your son is alive.”
Hebrew Names Version
Eliyah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Eliyah said, Behold, your son lives.
King James Version
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
English Standard Version
And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, "See, your son lives."
New Century Version
Elijah carried the boy downstairs and gave him to his mother and said, "See! Your son is alive!"
New English Translation
Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, "See, your son is alive!"
Amplified Bible
Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the [lower part of the] house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, "See, your son is alive."
New American Standard Bible
Elijah then took the boy and brought him down from the upstairs room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, "See, your son is alive."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Eliiah tooke the childe, and brought him downe out of the chamber into the house, and deliuered him vnto his mother, and Eliiah sayd, Behold, thy sonne liueth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, "See, your son is alive."
Contemporary English Version
Elijah picked him up and carried him downstairs. He gave the boy to his mother and said, "Look, your son is alive."
Complete Jewish Bible
Eliyahu took the child, brought him down from the upstairs room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Eliyahu said, "See? Your son is alive."
Darby Translation
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, See, thy son lives.
Easy-to-Read Version
Elijah carried the boy downstairs, gave him to his mother, and said, "Look, your son is alive!"
George Lamsa Translation
And Elijah took the boy and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said to her, See, your son lives.
Good News Translation
Elijah took the boy back downstairs to his mother and said to her, "Look, your son is alive!"
Lexham English Bible
Elijah then took the child and brought him down from the upper room to the house and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, "Look, your son is alive."
Literal Translation
And Elijah took the boy and brought him down from the upper room of the house, and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, See your son lives!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Elias toke the childe, and broughte him downe from the chamber in to the house and delyuered him vnto his mother, and sayde: Beholde, thy sonne lyueth.
American Standard Version
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother; and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
Bible in Basic English
And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Elias toke the boye, and brought him downe out of the chamber into the house, and deliuered him vnto his mother: And Elias saide, Behold, thy sonne lyueth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother; and Elijah said: 'See, thy son liveth.'
King James Version (1611)
And Eliiah tooke the childe, and brought him downe out of the chamber into the house, and deliuered him vnto his mother: and Eliiah said, See, thy sonne liueth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and he brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; and Eliu said, See, thy son lives.
English Revised Version
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. "Look, your son is alive," Elijah declared.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Elie took the child, and puttide hym doun of the soler in to the lower hows, and bitook him to his modir; and he seide to hir, Lo! thi sone lyueth.
Young's Literal Translation
And Elijah taketh the lad, and bringeth him down from the upper chamber of the house, and giveth him to his mother, and Elijah saith, `See, thy son liveth!'
Update Bible Version
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, See, your son lives.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down from the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
World English Bible
Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.
New King James Version
And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, "See, your son lives!"
New Living Translation
Then Elijah brought him down from the upper room and gave him to his mother. "Look!" he said. "Your son is alive!"
New Life Bible
Elijah took the child and brought him down from the second floor into the house and gave him to his mother. He said, "See, your son is alive."
New Revised Standard
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."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Elijah took the boy, and carried him down out of the upper room, into the house, and gave him to his mother, - and Elijah said, See! thy son liveth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth.
Revised Standard Version
And Eli'jah took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Eli'jah said, "See, your son lives."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, "See, your son is alive."

Contextual Overview

17And it comes to pass, after these things, the son of the woman, mistress of the house, has been sick, and his sickness is very severe until no breath has been left in him. 18And she says to Elijah, "What [is this] to me and to you, O man of God? You have come to me to cause my iniquity to be remembered, and to put my son to death!" 19And he says to her, "Give your son to me"; and he takes him out of her bosom, and takes him up to the upper chamber where he is abiding, and lays him on his own bed, 20and cries to YHWH and says, "My God YHWH, have You also brought calamity on the widow with whom I am sojourning, to put her son to death?" 21And he stretches himself out on the boy three times, and calls to YHWH and says, "O YHWH my God, please let the soul of this boy return into his midst"; 22and YHWH listens to the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the boy turns back into his midst, and he lives. 23And Elijah takes the boy, and brings him down from the upper chamber of the house, and gives him to his mother, and Elijah says, "See, your son lives!"24And the woman says to Elijah, "Now [by] this I have known that you [are] a man of God, and the word of YHWH in your mouth [is] truth."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy son liveth: 2 Kings 4:36, 2 Kings 4:37, Luke 7:15, Acts 9:41, Hebrews 11:35

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:1 - See Luke 7:12 - the only Luke 9:42 - and delivered John 4:51 - Thy

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
and I give My covenant between Me and you, and multiply you very exceedingly."
Genesis 17:9
And God says to Abraham, "And you keep My covenant, you and your seed after you, throughout their generations;
Genesis 17:10
this [is] My covenant which you keep between Me and you, and your seed after you: every male of you [is] to be circumcised;
Genesis 17:12
And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male throughout your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of your seed;
Genesis 17:14
and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, indeed, that person has been cut off from his people; My covenant he has broken."
Genesis 17:18
And Abraham says to God, "O that Ishmael may live before You";
Genesis 17:19
and God says, "Your wife Sarah is certainly bearing a son to you, and you have called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a perpetual covenant, to his seed after him.
Genesis 17:25
and his son Ishmael [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;
Genesis 17:26
in this very same day Abraham has been circumcised, and his son Ishmael;
Genesis 17:27
and all the men of his house—born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger—have been circumcised with him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house,.... Being come to life, he took it off of the bed in his bedchamber, and brought it down to the lower part of the house, where the woman was:

and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, see, thy son liveth; which no doubt was to her great surprise, and was a wonderful instance of divine power and goodness, and to which the apostle may have respect, Hebrews 11:35, Bunting l says, the inhabitants of this place now take upon them to show the chamber wherein the prophet Elias lived, when he raised the widow's child to life.

l Travels, &c. p. 205.


 
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