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have you also brought disaster on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?
Possible meanings are 1) Elijah is truly asking a question. Alternate translation: "why would you cause the widow with whom I am staying to suffer even more by killing her son" or 2) Elijah uses a question to express how sad he is. Alternate translation: "surely, you would not cause the widow with whom I am staying to suffer even more by killing her son" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)
have you also brought disaster on the widow
Causing the widow to suffer is spoken of as if "disaster" were an object that is placed on the widow. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)
also brought disaster
Here "also" means in addition to the disaster that the drought has caused.