1 Kings 17:17
Good News Translation
Some time later the widow's son got sick; he got worse and worse, and finally he died.

New Revised Standard Version
After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

Contemporary English Version
Several days later, the son of the woman who owned the house got sick, and he kept getting worse, until finally he died.

New American Bible
Some time later the son of the woman, the owner of the house, fell sick, and his sickness grew more severe until he stopped breathing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.

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the son of the woman

Genesis 22:1,2 After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. . . .

2 Kings 4:18-20 And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers, . . .

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.

John 11:3,4,14 His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. . . .

James 1:2-4,12 My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations: . . .

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:12 Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you: as if some new thing happened to you.

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Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

Job 34:14 If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself.

Psalm 104:29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Daniel 5:23 But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.

James 2:26 For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.

Context
Elijah Raises the Widow's Son
17And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.18And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?…
Cross References
1 Kings 17:16
The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.

1 Kings 17:18
And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?

1 Kings 17:16
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