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I Kings Chapter 18

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I KINGS

I Kings 18

1After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third year, saying: Go, and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon the face of the earth.
Luke 4:25, Luke 4:25, James 5:17, James 5:17, Deuteronomy 28:12
2And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.
2 Kings 6:25, Deuteronomy 28:23, Deuteronomy 28:24, Proverbs 28:1, Joel 1:15
3And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias feared the Lord very much.
Nehemiah 7:2, Nehemiah 7:2, Matthew 10:28, 1 Kings 16:9, Matthew 10:28
4For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.
1 Kings 18:13, 1 Kings 18:13, Matthew 10:40, Matthew 10:42, Matthew 10:40
5And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the horses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish.
Jeremiah 14:5, Jeremiah 14:6, Joel 1:18, Jeremiah 14:5, Jeremiah 14:6
6And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.
Jeremiah 14:3, Jeremiah 14:3
7And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?
2 Kings 1:6, 2 Kings 1:8, 2 Kings 1:6, 2 Kings 1:8, Isaiah 60:14
8And he answered: I am. Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.
1 Kings 18:3, Romans 13:7, 1 Peter 2:17, 1 Peter 2:18, 1 Kings 18:3
9And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me, thy servant, into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?
Exodus 5:21, 1 Kings 17:18, 1 Kings 18:12, Exodus 5:21, 1 Kings 17:18
10As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found.
1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:1, Psalms 10:2, Psalms 31:20, 1 Kings 1:29
11And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here.
1 Kings 18:8, 1 Kings 18:14, 1 Kings 18:8, 1 Kings 18:14
12And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.
Acts 8:39, 2 Kings 2:16, Acts 8:39, 2 Kings 2:16, Ezekiel 8:3
13Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:4, Matthew 25:35, Matthew 25:35, Acts 20:34
14And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.
Matthew 10:28, Matthew 10:28
15And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I stand, this day I will shew myself unto him.
1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:10, 1 Kings 18:10, Hebrews 6:16
16Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came to meet Elias.
17And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?
Joshua 7:25, Joshua 7:25, 1 Kings 21:20, 1 Kings 21:20, Acts 17:6
18And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Baalim.
2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 1 Kings 9:9, 1 Kings 9:9, Jeremiah 2:19
19Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.
Joshua 19:26, 1 Kings 16:33, Joshua 19:26, 1 Kings 16:33, 2 Kings 2:25
20Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together the prophets unto mount Carmel.
1 Kings 22:9, 1 Kings 22:9
21And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.
Matthew 6:24, Matthew 6:24, Joshua 24:15, Joshua 24:15, 1 Corinthians 10:21
22And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of the Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 20:38
23Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it upon wood, but put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under it.
24Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name of my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God. And all the people answering, said: A very good proposal.
1 Kings 18:38, 1 Kings 18:38, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 2 Chronicles 7:3
25Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock and dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your gods; but put no fire under.
26And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it: and they 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 over the altar that they had made.
Jeremiah 10:5, Jeremiah 10:5, Matthew 6:7, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 12:2
27And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with a louder voice: for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an inn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.
Psalms 78:65, Psalms 78:66, Isaiah 41:23, Psalms 78:65, Psalms 78:66
28So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.
Leviticus 19:28, Leviticus 19:28, Deuteronomy 14:1, Deuteronomy 14:1, Mark 5:5
29And after midday was past, and while they were prophesying, the time was come of offering sacrifice, and there was no voice heard, nor did any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed.
Galatians 4:8, 1 Kings 22:12, Exodus 29:41, 1 Samuel 18:10, 1 Corinthians 11:4
30Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me. And the people coming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken down:
2 Chronicles 33:16, 2 Chronicles 33:16, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 19:10
31And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name.
2 Kings 17:34, 2 Kings 17:34, Genesis 32:28, Genesis 35:10, Genesis 32:28
32And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord: and he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows, round about the altar.
Colossians 3:17, Colossians 3:17, Exodus 20:24, Exodus 20:25, Exodus 20:24
33And he laid the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it upon the wood.
Genesis 22:9, Genesis 22:9, Leviticus 1:6, Leviticus 1:8, Judges 6:20
34And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the burnt offering, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do the same the second time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the same also the third time. And they did so the third time.
2 Corinthians 8:21, 2 Corinthians 4:2, 2 Corinthians 8:21, 2 Corinthians 4:2
35And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was filled with water.
1 Kings 18:38, 1 Kings 18:32, 1 Kings 18:38, 1 Kings 18:32
36And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the prophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these things.
1 Kings 18:29, 1 Kings 18:29, 2 Kings 19:19, Exodus 3:6, 2 Kings 19:19
37Dear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again.
Daniel 9:17, Daniel 9:19, Daniel 9:17, Daniel 9:19, Luke 1:16
38Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Leviticus 9:24, Leviticus 9:24, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 2 Chronicles 7:1
39And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.
1 Kings 18:24, 1 Kings 18:24, 2 Chronicles 7:3, 2 Chronicles 7:3, 1 Kings 18:21
40And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.
Deuteronomy 18:20, Judges 4:7, Deuteronomy 18:20, Judges 4:7, Deuteronomy 13:5
41And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
1 Kings 18:1, 1 Kings 18:1, Ecclesiastes 9:7, 1 Kings 17:1, Ecclesiastes 9:7
42Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between his knees,
Luke 6:12, Joshua 7:6, Genesis 24:52, Isaiah 38:2, Daniel 9:3
43And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times.
Habakkuk 2:3, Habakkuk 2:3, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 10:37, Ephesians 6:18
44And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee.
Luke 12:54, Luke 12:54, Job 8:7, Job 8:7, Micah 1:13
45And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the heavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain. And Achab getting up, went away to Jezrahel:
1 Kings 21:23, Joshua 19:18, Joshua 17:16, 1 Kings 21:1, 2 Kings 9:16
46And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.
Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 3:14, Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 3:14, 2 Kings 3:15

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