After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.” Luk 4:25Jas 5:171Ki 17:1Deu 28:121Ki 18:15-401Ki 18:2Jol 2:23Lev 26:4
Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria. 2Ki 6:25Deu 28:23-24Heb 13:5-6Isa 51:12Jer 14:18Jer 14:2-6Jol 1:15-20Lev 26:26 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly; Neh 7:21Ki 16:9Mat 10:281Ki 18:122Ki 4:1Act 10:2Act 10:35Gen 22:12 for when Jezebel cut off the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) 1Ki 18:13Mat 10:40-42Heb 11:38Mat 21:35Mat 25:35Mat 25:40Neh 9:26Rev 17:4-6 Ahab 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.” Jer 14:5-6Jol 1:18Hab 3:17Jol 2:22Psa 104:14Rom 8:20-22
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. Jer 14:3 As 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?” 2Ki 1:6-81Ki 11:291Sa 20:412Sa 19:18Gen 18:12Gen 18:2Gen 44:16Gen 44:20
He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’” 1Ki 18:31Pe 2:17-18Rom 13:7
He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? 1Ki 17:181Ki 18:12Exo 5:21 As the LORD 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. 1Ki 17:11Ki 1:291Ki 17:121Ki 17:51Ki 17:91Ki 18:151Ki 2:241Sa 29:6 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’ 1Ki 18:141Ki 18:8 It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that the LORD’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 the LORD from my youth. 2Ki 2:16Act 8:39Ezk 8:32Co 12:2-32Ki 2:11Ezk 11:24Ezk 3:12-14Ezk 37:1 Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the LORD’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 1Ki 18:4Mat 25:351Th 2:9-10Act 20:34Gen 20:4-5Mat 10:41-42Psa 18:21-24 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.” Mat 10:28
Elijah said, “As the LORD of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.” 1Ki 17:11Ki 18:10Deu 1:38Deu 4:19Gen 2:1Heb 6:16-17Isa 51:7-8Isa 6:3 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” Jos 7:251Ki 21:20Act 16:20Act 17:6Act 24:5Amo 7:10Jer 26:8-9Jer 38:4
He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the LORD’s commandments and you have followed the Baals. 2Ch 15:21Ki 9:91Ki 16:31Jer 2:191Ki 21:25Act 24:13Act 24:20Ezk 3:8 Now 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.” 1Ki 16:33Jos 19:262Ki 2:252Pe 2:11Ki 15:131Ki 18:221Ki 18:42-431Ki 19:1-2
So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel. 1Ki 22:9 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” Mat 6:24Jos 24:151Co 10:21-222Co 6:14-161Sa 7:32Ki 17:41Rev 3:15-16Zep 1:5
The people didn’t say a word.
Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men. 1Ki 19:101Ki 19:141Ki 18:19-201Ki 20:131Ki 20:321Ki 20:351Ki 20:381Ki 22:6-8 Let 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. You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the LORD’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” 1Ki 18:381Ch 21:262Ch 7:12Ch 7:3Lev 9:24Jdg 6:212Sa 14:19Isa 39:8
All the people answered, “What you say is good.”
Elijah 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.”
They 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. Jer 10:51Co 12:21Co 8:4Mat 6:71Co 10:19-201Ki 18:24Dan 5:23Hab 2:18
At 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.” Isa 41:23Psa 78:65-661Ki 22:152Ch 25:8Amo 4:4-5Ecc 11:9Ezk 20:39Isa 44:15-17
They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them. Lev 19:28Deu 14:1Mrk 5:5Mic 6:7Mrk 9:22 When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention. 1Co 11:4-51Ki 18:261Ki 22:101Ki 22:121Sa 18:102Ti 3:8-9Act 16:16-17Exo 29:39
Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the LORD’s altar that had been thrown down. 2Ch 33:161Ki 19:141Ki 19:10Rom 11:3 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the LORD’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.” 2Ki 17:34Gen 32:28Gen 35:10Jos 4:20Jos 4:3-4Eph 2:20Eph 4:4-6Exo 24:4 With the stones he built an altar in the LORD’s name. He made a trench around the altar large enough to contain two seahs 1 of seed. Col 3:17Exo 20:24-251Co 10:311Sa 7:171Sa 7:9Jdg 21:4Jdg 6:26 He 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.” Gen 22:9Dan 3:19Dan 3:25Jdg 6:20Jhn 11:39-40Jhn 19:33-34Lev 1:6-8 He 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. 2Co 4:22Co 8:21 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water. 1Ki 18:321Ki 18:38
At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “LORD, 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. 1Ki 18:292Ki 19:19Exo 3:61Ki 8:43Mat 22:32Psa 83:18Act 3:1Dan 12:11 Hear me, LORD, hear me, that this people may know that you, LORD, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.” Dan 9:17-19Luk 1:16-17Ezk 36:25-271Ki 18:24Mal 4:5-61Ki 18:291Ki 18:362Ch 14:11
Then the LORD’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. Lev 9:241Ch 21:262Ch 7:1Jdg 6:211Ki 18:242Ki 1:12Job 1:16Lev 10:2 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “The LORD, he is God! The LORD, he is God!” 1Ki 18:242Ch 7:31Ki 18:211Ch 21:16Act 2:37Act 4:16Jdg 13:20Jhn 5:35
Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” Deu 18:20Jdg 4:7Deu 13:5Jdg 5:21Zec 13:2-32Ki 10:24-25Jer 48:10Rev 19:20
They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” 1Ki 18:11Ki 17:1Ecc 9:7Act 27:34
So 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. Luk 6:121Ki 18:19-201Ki 19:132Sa 12:16Act 10:9Dan 9:3Dan 9:7Ezr 9:6 He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” Hab 2:3Luk 18:1Luk 18:7Eph 6:18Gen 32:26Heb 10:36-37Psa 5:3
He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.”
He said, “Go again” seven times.
On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” Luk 12:54Job 8:7Mic 1:13Zec 4:101Sa 6:101Sa 6:7
He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”
In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. 1Ki 18:39-401Ki 21:11Ki 21:232Ki 9:162Sa 21:14Jos 17:16Jos 19:18Num 25:8 The LORD’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. Ezk 3:14Ezk 1:32Ki 3:152Ki 9:1Isa 8:11Jer 1:17Mat 22:211Pe 1:13