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Elijah
is here.
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And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the
hand of Ahab, to slay me?
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As
the L
ORD
thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither
my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said,
He is
not
there;
he took an oath of the
kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
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And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold,
Elijah
is here.
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And it shall come to pass,
as soon as
I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the
L
ORD
shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find
thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the L
ORD
from my youth.
13
Was it not told my lord
what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the L
ORD
, how I hid an hundred men of the L
ORD
’S
prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
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And now thou sayest, Go, tell
thy lord, Behold, Elijah
is here:
and he shall slay me.
15
And Elijah said,
As
the L
ORD
of hosts liveth,
before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.
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So Obadiah went to meet Ahab,
and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him,
Art
thou he that troubleth
Israel?
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And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye
have forsaken the commandments of the L
ORD
, and thou hast followed Baalim.
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Now therefore
send,
and
gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and
fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.
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So Ahab sent
unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
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And Elijah
came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the L
ORD
be
God,
follow him: but if Baal,
then
follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
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Then said
Elijah unto the people, I,
even
I only, remain a prophet of the L
ORD
; but Baal’s prophets
are
four
hundred and fifty men.
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Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock
for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay
it
on wood, and put no fire
under:
and I will dress the
other bullock, and lay
it
on wood, and put no fire
under:
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And call ye on the name of your gods,
and I will call on the name of the L
ORD
: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And
all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
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And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal,
Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress
it
first; for ye
are
many; and call on the name of
your gods, but put no fire
under.
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And they took the bullock which was given them, and they
dressed
it,
and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.
But
there was
no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
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And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he
is
a god; either
he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey,
or
peradventure he sleepeth, and must be
awaked.
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And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets,
till the blood gushed out upon them.
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And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they
prophesied until the
time
of the offering of the
evening
sacrifice, that
there was
neither voice, nor
any to answer, nor any that regarded.
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And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me.
And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the L
ORD
that was
broken down.
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And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto
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