Bible Strands
1 Kings 17:23
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Elijah addresses the mother immediately after the Lord restores her son’s breath. He moves the child from the upper room into the house and hands him back to her.
The words — The Hebrew וַ/יִּקַּ֨ח (va/i.yi.Kach) and וַ/יֹּרִדֵ֤/הוּ (va/i.yo.ri.De./hu) record the physical actions of taking and bringing down. These verbs mark the deliberate transfer of the child from the upper room to the house.
The thread — Parallel restoration accounts appear in 2 Kings 4:36, Luke 7:15, and Acts 9:41, where revived individuals are returned to their families or gathered communities. Each passage tracks the prophet’s role in delivering the restored person to those awaiting them.
Why it lands — The text requires acknowledgment that divine power functions through concrete, observable action. It asks the reader to accept God’s sovereignty over life and death without relying on emotional interpretation.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 4:36 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
- Luke 7:15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak! Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
- Acts 9:41 Peter took her by the hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.
- Hebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.