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and saide, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this thou sayest, Go, tel thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is
childes soule come into him againe. 22 Then the here, that he may slay me. 15 And Eliiah said, As
Lord heard the voyce of Eliiah, and the soule of the Lord of hostes liueth, before whome I stand, I
the child came into him againe, and he reuiued. will surely shewe my selfe vnto him this day. 16 So
23 And Eliiah tooke the childe, and brought him Obadiah went to meete Ahab, and tolde him: And
downe out of the chamber into the house, and Ahab went to meete Eliiah. 17 And when Ahab
deliuered him vnto his mother, and Eliiah sayd, saw Eliiah, Ahab said vnto him, Art thou he that
And he answered, I haue not
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troubleth Israel?
Behold, thy sonne liueth. 24 And the woman saide troubled Israel, but thou, and thy fathers house,
vnto Eliiah, Now I knowe that thou art a man of in that ye haue forsaken the commandements of
God, and that the worde of the Lord in thy mouth
is true. the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim. 19 Now
therefore send, and gather to me all Israel vnto
18 mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal foure
1 After many dayes, the worde of the Lord hundreth and fiftie, and the prophets of the
came to Eliiah, in the third yeere, saying, Goe, groues foure hundreth, which eate at Iezebels
shewe thy selfe vnto Ahab, and I will sende table. 20 So Ahab sent vnto all the children of
rayne vpon the earth. 2 And Eliiah went to Israel, and gathered the prophets together vnto
shew himselfe vnto Ahab, and there was a great mount Carmel. 21 And Eliiah came vnto all the
people, and said, How long halt ye betweene two
famine in Samaria. 3 And Ahab called Obadiah
the gouernour of his house: (and Obadiah feared opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if
God greatly: 4 For when Iezebel destroyed the Baal be he, then goe after him. And the people
Prophets of the Lord, Obadiah tooke an hundreth answered him not a worde. 22 Then said Eliiah
vnto the people, I onely remayne a Prophet of
Prophets, and hid them, by fiftie in a caue, and the Lord: but Baals prophets are foure hundreth
he fed them with bread and water.) 5 And Ahab and fiftie men. 23 Let them therefore giue vs
saide vnto Obadiah, Goe into the land, vnto all the
fountaines of water, and vnto all the riuers, if so two bullockes, and let them chuse the one, and
be that we may finde grasse to saue the horses cut him in pieces, and lay him on the wood, but
and the mules aliue, lest we depriue the lande put no fire vnder, and I will prepare the other
of the beastes. 6 And so they deuided the lande bullocke, and lay him on the wood, and will put
betweene them to walke thorowe it. Ahab went no fire vnder. 24 Then call ye on the name of your
one way by him selfe, and Obadiah went another god, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and
way by him selfe. 7 And as Obadiah was in the then the God that answereth by fire, let him be
way, behold, Eliiah met him: and he knew him, God. And all the people answered, and sayde, It is
and fell on his face, and said, Art not thou my well spoken. 25 And Eliiah said vnto the prophets
lord Eliiah? And he answered him, Yea, goe tell of Baal, Chuse you a bullocke, and prepare him
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thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here. 9 And he said, first, (for ye are many) and call on the name of
What haue I sinned, that thou wouldest deliuer your gods, but put no fire vnder. 26 So they tooke
thy seruant into the hande of Ahab, to slay me? the one bullocke, that was giuen them, and they
10 As the Lord thy God liueth, there is no nation prepared it, and called on the name of Baal, from
or kingdome, whither my lorde hath not sent to morning to noone, saying, O Baal, heare vs: but
seeke thee: and when they sayd, He is not here, there was no voyce, nor any to answere: and they
he tooke an othe of the kingdome and nation, leapt vpon the altar that was made. 27 And at
if they had not found thee. 11 And now thou noone Eliiah mocked them, and said, Crye loude:
sayest, Goe, tell thy lorde, Beholde, Eliiah is here. for he is a god: either he talketh or pursueth his
12 And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of enemies, or is in his iourney, or it may be that he
the Lord shall cary thee into some place that I sleepeth, and must be awaked. 28 And they cryed
doe not know: so when I come and tell Ahab, if loude, and cut them selues as their maner was,
he cannot finde thee, then wil he kill me: But I with kniues and launcers, till the blood gushed
thy seruant feare the Lord from my youth. 13 Was out vpon them. 29 And when midday was passed,
it not tolde my lord, what I did when Iezebel slew and they had prophecied vntil the offring of the
the Prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundreth euening sacrifice, there was neither voyce, nor
men of the Lordes Prophets by fifties in a caue, one to answere, nor any that regarded. 30 And
and fed them with bread and water? 14 And now