Elijah Bible stories for kids

Elijah and the Ravens is three minutes beside a brook called Cherith, after Elijah has told King Ahab the rain will stop. Big scruffy black birds bring him bread and meat every morning and every evening, until one day the brook goes quiet. It is on our list for three-year-olds. Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath follows him to a town outside Israel, where a mother is gathering two sticks to bake the last handful of flour for herself and her thin, tired son. He asks her to feed him first, and the jar of flour and the jug of oil do not run out until the rain comes back. That one is eight minutes.

Elijah and the Prophets of Baal is the big one, eleven minutes on Mount Carmel after three years without rain. Four hundred and fifty prophets dance and shout at their altar from morning until evening while Elijah teases them. Then he rebuilds an old altar from twelve stones, has twelve jars of water poured over it, and prays once. The fire takes the offering, the wood, the stones and the water in the trench, and at the end a cloud no bigger than a man's hand brings the rain.

Elijah and the Still Small Voice is the turn. Queen Jezebel promises to kill him, he runs into the desert and asks God to take his life, and God answers with sleep, a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water by his head. Later, on the mountain, God is not in the wind or the earthquake or the fire but in a gentle whisper. It runs about eight minutes. Elijah and the Chariot of Fire ends it in under five: a last walk with Elisha, the Jordan parted with a rolled-up cloak, a chariot and horses of fire, and the cloak left lying on the road for Elisha to pick up.

On this website Elijah and the Ravens, Elijah and the Prophets of Baal and Elijah and the Chariot of Fire are published in full. The widow and the still small voice carry their opening, with the rest of the narration in the app. Every page has a free audio preview, the memory verse from the World English Bible, discussion questions and a prayer.