( AI)ģ0 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar ( AJ) of the Lord, which had been torn down. ( AH) But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. 29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” ( AF) 28 So they shouted louder and slashed ( AG) themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling.

And they danced around the altar they had made.Ģ7 At noon Elijah began to taunt them. But there was no response ( AE) no one answered. Then they called ( AD) on the name of Baal from morning till noon. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.” 26 So they took the bull given them and prepared it. Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”Ģ5 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. ( AB) The god who answers by fire ( AC)-he is God.” 24 Then you call ( AA) on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. Let Baal’s prophets choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. ( V) 21 Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver ( W) between two opinions? If the Lord ( X) is God, follow him but if Baal is God, follow him.”Ģ2 Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord’s prophets left, ( Y) but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. ( T) And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.” ( U)Ģ0 So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 19 Now summon ( S) the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. You have abandoned ( R) the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals. “But you ( Q) and your father’s family have.

17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler ( P) of Israel?”ġ8 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. 14 And now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’ He will kill me!”ġ5 Elijah said, “As the Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present ( O) myself to Ahab today.” Elijah on Mount Carmelġ6 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 13 Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord? I hid a hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water. Yet I your servant have worshiped the Lord since my youth. If I go and tell Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. 11 But now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’ 12 I don’t know where the Spirit ( N) of the Lord may carry you when I leave you.

And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here.’”ĩ “What have I done wrong,” asked Obadiah, “that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death? 10 As surely as the Lord your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look ( M) for you.

Obadiah recognized ( L) him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?”Ĩ “Yes,” he replied. Maybe we can find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive so we will not have to kill any of our animals.” ( K) 6 So they divided the land they were to cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in another.ħ As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. 4 While Jezebel ( G) was killing off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden ( H) them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied ( I) them with food and water.) 5 Ahab had said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs ( J) and valleys. ( E) (Obadiah was a devout believer ( F) in the Lord. Now the famine was severe ( D) in Samaria, 3 and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, his palace administrator. 18 After a long time, in the third ( A) year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Go and present ( B) yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain ( C) on the land.” 2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.

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