1 Kings 18 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Obadiah Meets Elijah

1Ki 18:1It happened after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Eliyah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ach'av; and I will send rain on the eretz.

1Ki 18:2

1Ki 18:2Eliyah went to show himself to Ach'av. The famine was sore in Shomron.

1Ki 18:3

1Ki 18:3Ach'av called `Ovadyah, who was over the household. (Now `Ovadyah feared the LORD greatly:

1Ki 18:4

1Ki 18:4for it was so, when Izevel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that `Ovadyah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

1Ki 18:5

1Ki 18:5Ach'av said to `Ovadyah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.

1Ki 18:6

1Ki 18:6So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ach'av went one way by himself, and `Ovadyah went another way by himself.

1Ki 18:7

1Ki 18:7As `Ovadyah was in the way, behold, Eliyah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Eliyah?

1Ki 18:8

1Ki 18:8He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah is here.

1Ki 18:9

1Ki 18:9He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ach'av, to kill me?

1Ki 18:10

1Ki 18:10As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.

1Ki 18:11

1Ki 18:11Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah is here.

1Ki 18:12

1Ki 18:12It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ach'av, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear the LORD from my youth.

1Ki 18:13

1Ki 18:13Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Izevel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1Ki 18:14

1Ki 18:14Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah is here; and he will kill me.

1Ki 18:15

1Ki 18:15Eliyah said, As the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.

1Ki 18:16

1Ki 18:16So `Ovadyah went to meet Ach'av, and told him; and Ach'av went to meet Eliyah.

1Ki 18:17

1Ki 18:17It happened, when Ach'av saw Eliyah, that Ach'av said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Yisra'el?

1Ki 18:18

1Ki 18:18He answered, I have not troubled Yisra'el; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the mitzvot of the LORD, and you have followed the Ba`alim.

1Ki 18:19

1Ki 18:19Now therefore send, and gather to me all Yisra'el to Mount Karmel, and the prophets of Ba`al four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Izevel's table.

God or Baal on Mount Carmel

1Ki 18:20

1Ki 18:20So Ach'av sent to all the children of Yisra'el, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Karmel.

1Ki 18:21

1Ki 18:21Eliyah came near to all the people, and said, How long go you limping between the two sides? if the LORD is God, follow him; but if Ba`al, then follow him. The people answered him not a word.

1Ki 18:22

1Ki 18:22Then said Eliyah to the people, I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD; but Ba`al's prophets are four hundred fifty men.

1Ki 18:23

1Ki 18:23Let 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.

1Ki 18:24

1Ki 18:24Call you on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God. All the people answered, It is well spoken.

1Ki 18:25

1Ki 18:25Eliyah said to the prophets of Ba`al, Choose you 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.

1Ki 18:26

1Ki 18:26They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Ba`al from morning even until noon, saying, Ba`al, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

1Ki 18:27

1Ki 18:27It happened at noon, that Eliyah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.

1Ki 18:28

1Ki 18:28They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

1Ki 18:29

1Ki 18:29It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening offering; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded.

1Ki 18:30

1Ki 18:30Eliyah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of the LORD that was thrown down.

1Ki 18:31

1Ki 18:31Eliyah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Ya`akov, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Yisra'el shall be your name.

1Ki 18:32

1Ki 18:32With the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

1Ki 18:33

1Ki 18:33He 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.

1Ki 18:34

1Ki 18:34He said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. He said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time.

1Ki 18:35

1Ki 18:35The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

Elijah's Prayer

1Ki 18:36

1Ki 18:36It happened at the time of the offering of the evening offering, that Eliyah the prophet came near, and said, LORD, the God of Avraham, of Yitzchak, and of Yisra'el, let it be known this day that you are God in Yisra'el, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

1Ki 18:37

1Ki 18:37Hear me, LORD, hear me, that this people may know that you, LORD, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.

1Ki 18:38

1Ki 18:38Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

1Ki 18:39

1Ki 18:39When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, the LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.

1Ki 18:40

1Ki 18:40and Eliyah said to them, Take the prophets of Ba`al; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Eliyah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

1Ki 18:41

1Ki 18:41Eliyah said to Ach'av, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.

1Ki 18:42

1Ki 18:42So Ach'av went up to eat and to drink. Eliyah went up to the top of Karmel; and he bowed himself down on the eretz, and put his face between his knees.

1Ki 18:43

1Ki 18:43He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times.

1Ki 18:44

1Ki 18:44It happened at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arises a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. He said, Go up, tell Ach'av, Make ready your chariot, and get you down, that the rain not stop you.

1Ki 18:45

1Ki 18:45It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ach'av rode, and went to Yizre`el:

1Ki 18:46

1Ki 18:46and the hand of the LORD was on Eliyah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ach'av to the entrance of Yizre`el.

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