1 Kings 17:19

And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out Of her bosom, [the age of the child may hence be roughly inferred] and carried him up into a loft [Heb. הָעֲלִיָּה the upper chamber. LXX . τὸ ὑπερῷον . Loft is most misleading. The upper room, was often [rather, always ] the best apartment in an Eastern house" (Rawlinson). It was sometimes the guest chamber ( Luke 22:11 , Luke 22:12 ), and, from the uses to which it was put, must have been large ( Acts 1:13 ; Acts 9:39 ; Acts 20:8 ; 2 Kings 1:2 ). Thomson (L. & B. 1:235) infers from the fact that the widow's house had an upper room, "that the mode of building in Elijah's time and the custom of giving the 'alliyeh to the guest were the same as now; also that this poor widow was not originally among the poorest classes (who bare no 'alliyeh ), but that her extreme destitution was owing to the famine"], and laid him upon his own bed. [It may be doubted whether the verb יַשְׁכִבֵהוּ lit ; made him to lie down, would be used of a corpse.]