When the child later died, Elijah laid him on a couch, prayed, stretched himself upon the boy three times, and pleaded: “O Jehovah my God, please, cause the soul of this child to come back within him. ”
Kad vēlāk atraitnes dēls saslima un nomira, Elija noguldīja zēnu uz gultas, lūdza Dievu, trīs reizes visā augumā izstiepās pār zēnu un teica: ” Kungs, mans Dievs, liec, lūdzu, šī bērna dvēselei atkal atgriezties viņā! ”