1 Kings 18

1After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”Cross-references: Lev 26:4 · Deut 28:12 · 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 17:7 · 1Ki 17:15 · 1Ki 18:2 · +11 more

2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.Cross-references: Lev 26:26 · Deut 28:23 · 2Ki 6:25 · Ps 27:1 · Ps 51:4 · Prov 28:1 · +5 more

3Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Gen 24:2 · Gen 24:10 · Gen 39:4 · Gen 39:9 · Gen 41:40 · +11 more

4for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)Cross-references: 1Ki 13:8 · 1Ki 13:16 · 1Ki 18:13 · 2Ki 6:22 · Neh 9:26 · Matt 10:40 · +5 more

5Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”Cross-references: Ps 104:14 · Jer 14:5 · Joel 1:18 · Joel 2:22 · Hab 3:17 · Rom 8:20

6So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.Cross-references: Jer 14:3

7As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”Cross-references: Gen 18:2 · Gen 18:12 · Gen 44:16 · Gen 44:20 · Gen 44:33 · Gen 50:18 · +8 more

8He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:3 · Rom 13:7 · 1Pet 2:17

9He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?Cross-references: Ex 5:21 · 1Ki 17:18 · 1Ki 18:12

10As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.Cross-references: 1Sam 29:6 · 1Ki 1:29 · 1Ki 2:24 · 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 17:5 · 1Ki 17:9 · +9 more

11Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’Cross-references: 1Ki 18:8 · 1Ki 18:14

12It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:18 · 1Sam 2:26 · 1Sam 3:19 · 1Sam 22:11 · 2Ki 2:11 · 2Ki 2:16 · +18 more

13Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?Cross-references: Gen 20:4 · 1Ki 18:4 · Ps 18:21 · Matt 10:41 · Matt 25:35 · Acts 20:34 · +1 more

14Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”Cross-references: Matt 10:28

15Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”Cross-references: Gen 2:1 · Deut 1:38 · Deut 4:19 · 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 18:10 · Job 25:3 · +9 more

16So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

17When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”Cross-references: Josh 7:25 · 1Ki 21:20 · Jer 26:8 · Jer 38:4 · Amos 7:10 · Acts 16:20 · +2 more

18He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments and you have followed the Baals.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:9 · 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 21:25 · 2Chr 15:2 · Prov 11:19 · Prov 13:21 · +8 more

19Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”Cross-references: Josh 19:26 · 1Sam 15:12 · 1Ki 15:13 · 1Ki 16:33 · 1Ki 18:22 · 1Ki 18:42 · +11 more

20So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:9

21Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.Cross-references: Gen 24:50 · Gen 44:16 · Ex 5:1 · Deut 4:35 · Josh 24:15 · Josh 24:23 · +18 more

22Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 19:10 · 1Ki 19:14 · 1Ki 20:13 · 1Ki 20:32 · 1Ki 20:35 · +6 more

23Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

24You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.”Cross-references: Lev 9:24 · Judg 6:21 · 2Sam 14:19 · 1Ki 18:38 · 1Chr 21:26 · 2Chr 7:1 · +2 more

25Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

26They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:24 · Ps 115:4 · Ps 135:15 · Isa 37:38 · Isa 44:17 · Isa 45:20 · +8 more

27At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:15 · 2Chr 25:8 · Ps 44:23 · Ps 78:65 · Ps 121:4 · Eccl 11:9 · +10 more

28They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them.Cross-references: Lev 19:28 · Deut 14:1 · Mic 6:7 · Mark 5:5 · Mark 9:22

29When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.Cross-references: Ex 29:39 · Ex 29:41 · 1Sam 18:10 · 1Ki 18:26 · 1Ki 22:10 · 1Ki 22:12 · +5 more

30Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.Cross-references: 1Ki 19:10 · 1Ki 19:14 · 2Chr 33:16 · Rom 11:3

31Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”Cross-references: Gen 32:28 · Gen 33:20 · Gen 35:10 · Ex 24:4 · Josh 4:3 · Josh 4:20 · +10 more

32With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar large enough to contain two seahs of seed.Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Judg 6:26 · Judg 21:4 · 1Sam 7:9 · 1Sam 7:17 · 1Cor 10:31 · +1 more

33He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.”Cross-references: Gen 22:9 · Lev 1:6 · Judg 6:20 · Dan 3:19 · Dan 3:25 · John 11:39 · +1 more

34He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time.Cross-references: 2Cor 4:2 · 2Cor 8:21

35The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:32 · 1Ki 18:38

36At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.Cross-references: Gen 26:24 · Gen 31:53 · Gen 32:9 · Gen 46:3 · Ex 3:6 · Ex 3:15 · +28 more

37Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”Cross-references: Gen 32:24 · Gen 32:26 · Gen 32:28 · 1Ki 18:24 · 1Ki 18:29 · 1Ki 18:36 · +10 more

38Then Yahweh’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust; and it licked up the water that was in the trench.Cross-references: Gen 15:17 · Lev 9:24 · Lev 10:2 · Judg 6:21 · 1Ki 18:24 · 2Ki 1:12 · +4 more

39When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”Cross-references: Judg 13:20 · 1Ki 18:21 · 1Ki 18:24 · 1Chr 21:16 · 2Chr 7:3 · John 5:35 · +2 more

40Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.Cross-references: Deut 13:5 · Deut 18:20 · Judg 4:7 · Judg 5:21 · 2Ki 10:24 · Jer 48:10 · +3 more

41Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 18:1 · Eccl 9:7 · Acts 27:34

42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.Cross-references: Gen 24:52 · Josh 7:6 · 2Sam 12:16 · 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 19:13 · Ezra 9:6 · +10 more

43He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.Cross-references: Gen 32:26 · Ps 5:3 · Hab 2:3 · Luke 18:1 · Luke 18:7 · Eph 6:18 · +1 more

44On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”Cross-references: 1Sam 6:7 · 1Sam 6:10 · Job 8:7 · Mic 1:13 · Zech 4:10 · Luke 12:54

45In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.Cross-references: Num 25:8 · Josh 17:16 · Josh 19:18 · 2Sam 2:9 · 2Sam 21:14 · 1Ki 18:39 · +3 more

46Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.Cross-references: 2Ki 3:15 · 2Ki 4:29 · 2Ki 9:1 · Job 38:3 · Isa 8:11 · Jer 1:17 · +6 more