Elijah Fed by Ravens at the Brook
1 Kings 17:1-6 · Berean Standard Bible
In 1 Kings 17:1-6, during a drought Elijah declared, God sends the prophet to hide by the Kerith Brook and commands ravens to feed him bread and meat morning and evening while he drinks from the stream. It is a striking picture of God providing through unexpected means when ordinary supply lines fail. The story reassures anyone in a dry season that God can sustain you in surprising ways.
1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
2Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:
3“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
4And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
6The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
Read the wider context: 1 Kings 17.
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