| 1 | After many days the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go and show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth. |
| 2 | And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria. |
| 3 | And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the palace. Obadiah was the man of God-fearing, |
| 4 | and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. |
| 5 | And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the streams on earth, do not we may find grass to feed our horses and mules alive, and not lose cattle. |
| 6 | So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way and Obadiah went another way. |
| 7 | And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him and fell on his face and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah? |
| 8 | He said to him, I; Go, tell your lord, 'Elijah is here.' |
| 9 | He said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? |
| 10 | LORD thy God liveth! there is no nation or kingdom where my not sent to seek you; and when he said [that you] not, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they could not find you; |
| eleven | And now thou sayest, Go, tell your lord: Elijah is here. ' |
| 12 | When I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord will carry you I do not know where; and if I go and tell Ahab, and he can not find you, he will kill me; and thy servant fear the LORD from my youth. |
| 13 | Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? |
| 14 | And now you say, `Go, tell your lord, Elijah is here; he will kill me. |
| 15 | And Elijah said, As the LORD liveth hosts, before whom I stand! Today I'll show him. |
| 16 | So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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| 17 | When Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? |
| 18 | And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals; |
| 19 | Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, and four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table. |
| 20 | So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
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| 21 | And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. |
| 22 | And Elijah said unto the people, I alone, remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty people. |
| 23 | let them give us two young bulls, and let them choose one bullock, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under; and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under; |
| 24 | Then you call on the name of your god and I will call on the name of the Lord my God. The God who answers by fire, He is God. And all the people answered and said, well. |
| 25 | Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under. |
| 26 | And they took the bullock which was given them and dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning till noon, saying: O Baal, answer us! But there was no voice, no answer. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. |
| 27 | At noon Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; Perhaps he thought, or busy with something, or on the road, and perhaps he is asleep to wake up! |
| 28 | And they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. |
| 29 | I passed the afternoon, and they all prophesied until the time of the evening sacrifice; but there was no voice, no answer, nor hearing. |
| thirty | Then Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came to him. He restored the ruined altar of the LORD. |
| 31 | And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord said: Israel shall be thy name. |
| 32 | And he built with the stones an altar in the name of the Lord, and made a trench around the altar, with a capacity of two measures of seed, |
| 33 | and he put the wood, and cut the bullock, and put it on the wood, |
| 34 | and he said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood. Then he said again. And they repeated. And he said, do [the same] a third time. And they did it a third time, |
| 35 | And the water ran around the altar and filled the trench with water. |
| 36 | In Elijah the prophet came and said time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel! Let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel and that I am thy servant, and did everything according to your word. |
| 37 | Hear me, O Lord, hear me! This people may know that thou, O Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart [to You]. |
| 38 | Lord and fire came down and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. |
| 39 | Seeing [it] all the people fell on their faces and said, The LORD is God, the Lord is God! |
| 40 | And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
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| 41 | And Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of rain. |
| 42 | So Ahab went up to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, and stooped to the ground, and put his face between his knees, |
| 43 | and he said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up and looked, and said nothing. He said, keep [it] up to seven times. |
| 44 | For the seventh time he said, Behold, a little cloud rising from the sea, a man's hand. He said, Go up, say to Ahab, `, Prepare [thy chariot], and go down, lest the rain you '. |
| 45 | Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel. |
| 46 | And Elijah was on the Lord's hand. And he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. |
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