He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”

“As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

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!”