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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

1 Kings 17:23

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.

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."
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

17 And it came to pass, after these things, that the son of the woman, owner of the house, fell sick, - yea it came to pass that his sickness was very severe, until no, breath, was left in him. 18 Then said she unto Elijah, What have I in common with thee, O man of God? Hast thou come unto me, to call to remembrance mine iniquity, and to cause the death of my son? 19 And he said unto her - Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him unto the upper room, where, he, was staying, and laid him upon his own bed. 20 Then cried he unto Yahweh, and said, - O Yahweh, my God! Even upon the widow with whom I am sojourning, hast thou brought misfortune by causing the death of her son? 21 And he stretched himself out upon the boy, three times, and cried unto Yahweh, and said, - O Yahweh, my God! Let the life of this boy, I pray thee, come again within him. 22 And Yahweh hearkened unto the voice of Elijah, - and the life of the boy came again within him, and he lived. 23 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. 24 And the woman said unto Elijah, Now, then I know, that, a man of God, thou art, - and that, the word of Yahweh, is in thy mouth, of a 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
That I may set my covenant betwixt me and thee, And may multiply thee, exceedingly.
Genesis 17:9
And God said unto Abraham, But, as for thee, my covenant, must thou keep, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations: -
Genesis 17:10
This, is my covenant which ye shall keep, betwixt me and you, and thy seed after thee, - To circumcise to you every male:
Genesis 17:12
And he that is eight days old, shall be circumcised to you every male to your generations, - he that is born of the house, and he that is bought with silver of any son of a stranger, who is, not of thy seed,
Genesis 17:14
But, as for the uncircumcised male who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, - that person shall be cut off from among his people, - my covenant, hath he made void.
Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said unto God, - Oh that, Ishmael, might live before thee!
Genesis 17:19
And God said - Truly, Sarah thy wife, is about to bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name, Isaac, - and I will establish my covenant with him as an age-abiding covenant, to his seed after him.
Genesis 17:25
And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17:26
On this selfsame day, was Abraham circumcised, - and Ishmael his son;
Genesis 17:27
and, all the men of his house, born of his house, and bought with silver from the son of a stranger, were 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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