1After many dayes, the worde of the Lord came to Eliiah, in the third yeere, saying, Goe, shewe thy selfe vnto Ahab, and I will sende rayne vpon the earth.

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Luke 4:25, Luke 4:25, James 5:17, James 5:17, Deuteronomy 28:12

2And Eliiah went to shew himselfe vnto Ahab, and there was a great famine in Samaria.

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2 Kings 6:25, Deuteronomy 28:23, Deuteronomy 28:24, Proverbs 28:1, Joel 1:15

3And Ahab called Obadiah the gouernour of his house: (and Obadiah feared God greatly:

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Nehemiah 7:2, Nehemiah 7:2, Matthew 10:28, 1 Kings 16:9, Matthew 10:28

4For when Iezebel destroyed the Prophets of the Lord, Obadiah tooke an hundreth Prophets, and hid them, by fiftie in a caue, and he fed them with bread and water.)

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1 Kings 18:13, 1 Kings 18:13, Matthew 10:40, Matthew 10:42, Matthew 10:40

5And Ahab saide vnto Obadiah, Goe into the land, vnto all the fountaines of water, and vnto all the riuers, if so be that we may finde grasse to saue the horses and the mules aliue, lest we depriue the lande of the beastes.

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Jeremiah 14:5, Jeremiah 14:6, Joel 1:18, Jeremiah 14:5, Jeremiah 14:6

6And so they deuided the lande betweene them to walke thorowe it. Ahab went one way by him selfe, and Obadiah went another way by him selfe.

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Jeremiah 14:3, Jeremiah 14:3

7And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Eliiah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art not thou my lord Eliiah?

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2 Kings 1:6, 2 Kings 1:8, 2 Kings 1:6, 2 Kings 1:8, Isaiah 60:14

8And he answered him, Yea, goe tell thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here.

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1 Kings 18:3, Romans 13:7, 1 Peter 2:17, 1 Peter 2:18, 1 Kings 18:3

9And he said, What haue I sinned, that thou wouldest deliuer thy seruant into the hande of Ahab, to slay me?

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Exodus 5:21, 1 Kings 17:18, 1 Kings 18:12, Exodus 5:21, 1 Kings 17:18

10As the Lord thy God liueth, there is no nation or kingdome, whither my lorde hath not sent to seeke thee: and when they sayd, He is not here, he tooke an othe of the kingdome and nation, if they had not found thee.

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1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:1, Psalms 10:2, Psalms 31:20, 1 Kings 1:29

11And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lorde, Beholde, Eliiah is here.

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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 shall cary thee into some place that I doe not know: so when I come and tell Ahab, if he cannot finde thee, then wil he kill me: But I thy seruant feare the Lord from my youth.

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Acts 8:39, 2 Kings 2:16, Acts 8:39, 2 Kings 2:16, Ezekiel 8:3

13Was it not tolde my lord, what I did when Iezebel slew the Prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundreth men of the Lordes Prophets by fifties in a caue, and fed them with bread and water?

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1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:4, Matthew 25:35, Matthew 25:35, Acts 20:34

14And now thou sayest, Go, tel thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here, that he may slay me.

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Matthew 10:28, Matthew 10:28

15And Eliiah said, As the Lord of hostes liueth, before whome I stand, I will surely shewe my selfe vnto him this day.

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1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:10, 1 Kings 18:10, Hebrews 6:16

16So Obadiah went to meete Ahab, and tolde him: And Ahab went to meete Eliiah.

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17And when Ahab saw Eliiah, Ahab said vnto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

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Joshua 7:25, Joshua 7:25, 1 Kings 21:20, 1 Kings 21:20, Acts 17:6

18And he answered, I haue not troubled Israel, but thou, and thy fathers house, in that ye haue forsaken the commandements of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.

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2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 1 Kings 9:9, 1 Kings 9:9, Jeremiah 2:19

19Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel vnto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal foure hundreth and fiftie, and the prophets of the groues foure hundreth, which eate at Iezebels table.

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Joshua 19:26, 1 Kings 16:33, Joshua 19:26, 1 Kings 16:33, 2 Kings 2:25

20So Ahab sent vnto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together vnto mount Carmel.

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1 Kings 22:9, 1 Kings 22:9

21And Eliiah came vnto all the people, and said, How long halt ye betweene two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal be he, then goe after him. And the people answered him not a worde.

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Matthew 6:24, Matthew 6:24, Joshua 24:15, Joshua 24:15, 1 Corinthians 10:21

22Then said Eliiah vnto the people, I onely remayne a Prophet of the Lord: but Baals prophets are foure hundreth and fiftie men.

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1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 20:38

23Let them therefore giue vs two bullockes, and let them chuse the one, and cut him in pieces, and lay him on the wood, but put no fire vnder, and I will prepare the other bullocke, and lay him on the wood, and will put no fire vnder.

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24Then call ye on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and then the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered, and sayde, It is well spoken.

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1 Kings 18:38, 1 Kings 18:38, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 2 Chronicles 7:3

25And Eliiah said vnto the prophets of Baal, Chuse you a bullocke, and prepare him first, (for ye are many) and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire vnder.

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26So they tooke the one bullocke, that was giuen them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal, from morning to noone, saying, O Baal, heare vs: but there was no voyce, nor any to answere: and they leapt vpon the altar that was made.

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Jeremiah 10:5, Jeremiah 10:5, Matthew 6:7, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 12:2

27And at noone Eliiah mocked them, and said, Crye loude: for he is a god: either he talketh or pursueth his enemies, or is in his iourney, or it may be that he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

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Psalms 78:65, Psalms 78:66, Isaiah 41:23, Psalms 78:65, Psalms 78:66

28And they cryed loude, and cut them selues as their maner was, with kniues and launcers, till the blood gushed out vpon them.

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Leviticus 19:28, Leviticus 19:28, Deuteronomy 14:1, Deuteronomy 14:1, Mark 5:5

29And when midday was passed, and they had prophecied vntil the offring of the euening sacrifice, there was neither voyce, nor one to answere, nor any that regarded.

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Galatians 4:8, 1 Kings 22:12, Exodus 29:41, 1 Samuel 18:10, 1 Corinthians 11:4

30And Eliiah said vnto all the people, Come to me. And all the people came to him. And he repayred the altar of the Lord that was broken downe.

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2 Chronicles 33:16, 2 Chronicles 33:16, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 19:10

31And Eliiah tooke twelue stones, according to the nomber of the tribes of the sonnes of Iaakob, (vnto whome the worde of the Lord came, saying, Israel shalbe thy name)

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2 Kings 17:34, 2 Kings 17:34, Genesis 32:28, Genesis 35:10, Genesis 32:28

32And with the stones he buylt an altar in the Name of the Lord: and he made a ditch round about the altar, as great as woulde conteine two measures of seede.

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Colossians 3:17, Colossians 3:17, Exodus 20:24, Exodus 20:25, Exodus 20:24

33And he put the wood in order, and hewed the bullocke in pieces, and layd him on the wood,

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Genesis 22:9, Genesis 22:9, Leviticus 1:6, Leviticus 1:8, Judges 6:20

34And said, Fill foure barrels with water, and powre it on the burnt offring and on the wood. Againe he said, Doe so againe. And they did so the second time. And he sayde, Doe it the third time. And they did it the third time.

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2 Corinthians 8:21, 2 Corinthians 4:2, 2 Corinthians 8:21, 2 Corinthians 4:2

35And the water ran round about the altar: and he filled the ditch with water also.

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1 Kings 18:38, 1 Kings 18:32, 1 Kings 18:38, 1 Kings 18:32

36And when they should offer the euening sacrifice, Eliiah the Prophet came, and sayd, Lord God of Abraham, Izhak and of Israel, let it be knowen this day, that thou art the God of Israel, and that I am thy seruant, and that I haue done all these things at thy commandement.

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1 Kings 18:29, 1 Kings 18:29, 2 Kings 19:19, Exodus 3:6, 2 Kings 19:19

37Heare me, O Lord, heare me, and let this people know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart againe at the last.

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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 burnt offring, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked vp the water that was in the ditche.

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Leviticus 9:24, Leviticus 9:24, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 2 Chronicles 7:1

39And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces, and saide, The Lord is God, the Lord is God.

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1 Kings 18:24, 1 Kings 18:24, 2 Chronicles 7:3, 2 Chronicles 7:3, 1 Kings 18:21

40And Elijah said vnto them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not a man of them escape. and they tooke them, and Eliiah brought them to the brooke Kishon, and slewe them there.

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Deuteronomy 18:20, Judges 4:7, Deuteronomy 18:20, Judges 4:7, Deuteronomy 13:5

41And Eliiah sayde vnto Ahab, Get thee vp, eate and drinke, for there is a sound of much rayne.

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1 Kings 18:1, 1 Kings 18:1, Ecclesiastes 9:7, 1 Kings 17:1, Ecclesiastes 9:7

42So Ahab went vp to eate and to drinke, and Eliiah went vp to the top of Carmel: and he crouched vnto the earth, and put his face betweene his knees,

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Luke 6:12, Joshua 7:6, Genesis 24:52, Isaiah 38:2, Daniel 9:3

43And sayde to his seruant, Goe vp now and looke towarde the way of the Sea. And he went vp, and looked, and sayde, There is nothing. Againe he sayd, Goe againe seuen times.

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Habakkuk 2:3, Habakkuk 2:3, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 10:37, Ephesians 6:18

44And at the seuenth time he sayd, Behold, there ariseth a litle cloude out of the sea like a mans hand. Then he sayd, Vp, and say vnto Ahab, Make readie thy charet, and get thee downe, that the raine stay thee not.

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Luke 12:54, Luke 12:54, Job 8:7, Job 8:7, Micah 1:13

45And in the meane while the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, and there was a great rayne. Then Ahab went vp and came to Izreel.

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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 on Eliiah, and he girded vp his Ioynes, and ran before Ahab till he came to Izreel.

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Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 3:14, Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 3:14, 2 Kings 3:15