1 Kings 17:20
And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
This cry belongs to Elijah's work in the northern kingdom during the withholding of dew and rain, including his sojourn with the widow and his stern confrontation with King Ahab over who had troubled Israel.
Before this, Elijah had remained hidden many months by the brook Cherith where he was miraculously provided with food, and when the brook became dry because of the continued drought God bade him arise, go to Zarephath, and dwell there where He had commanded a widow woman to sustain him. Zarephath belongeth to Zidon, a heathen land known in New Testament times as Sarepta. The widow was not an Israelite and never had the privileges and blessings of God's chosen people, but she was a believer in the true God and had walked in all the light shining on her pathway, and when there was no safety for Elijah in the land of Israel God sent him to find an asylum in her home. He met her at the gate of the city gathering sticks when he asked her for water and bread.
Immediately before the cry, the widow's son became sick until no breath remained in him, and his mother accused Elijah of coming to call her sin to remembrance and slay her son. Elijah took the son from her bosom, carried him up into the loft where he lived, and laid him on his own bed. The verse itself is his cry unto the Lord after the son's death, asking whether God has brought calamity and grief upon the widow with whom he was staying and who had given him shelter by taking her son's life, by allowing her son to die.
As he cried out, he stretched himself upon the child three times, and the Lord heard the voice of Elijah so that the soul of the child came into him again and he revived and was restored to life. Elijah then took the child down out of the chamber into the house and delivered him alive to his mother. She answered that now she knew Elijah is a man of God and that the word of the Lord in his mouth is truth. The episode ends with the widow and her son preserved, illustrating the blessing promised to those who help others in need.