Appendix C

Reason:

In I kings 17, Elijah traveled to Syria where he stayed "many days" with a widow woman. Surely they had a sexual relationship. Yet Elijah was one of the greatest prophets that ever walked through Israel.

Answer:

There is not one speck of evidence in the Word of God that Elijah had sexual intercourse with the widow woman with whom he lived. There was a loft in the woman's house where "he" (not "they") lived, and he had "his own bed." The loft called a "chamber" in I Kings 17:23, was separate from the house so there was privacy for both him and the woman and her son (verse 23).

If Elijah did have a sexual relationship with the widow woman (and I repeat: there is no evidence for that), then he would have been required to marry her and take her back to Israel with him as a wife.