1╦╔ 18:1 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER MANY DAYS, THAT THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─ CAME TO ┼LIJAH IN THE THIRD YEAR, SAYING, ╟O, SHEW THYSELF UNTO ┴HAB; AND ╔ WILL SEND RAIN UPON THE EARTH.
1╦╔ 18:2 ┴ND ┼LIJAH WENT TO SHEW HIMSELF UNTO ┴HAB. ┴ND THERE WAS A SORE FAMINE IN ╙AMARIA.
1╦╔ 18:3 ┴ND ┴HAB CALLED ╧BADIAH, WHICH WAS THE GOVERNOR OF HIS HOUSE. (╬OW ╧BADIAH FEARED THE ╠╧╥─ GREATLY:
1╦╔ 18:4 ╞OR IT WAS SO, WHEN ╩EZEBEL CUT OFF THE PROPHETS OF THE ╠╧╥─, THAT ╧BADIAH TOOK AN HUNDRED PROPHETS, AND HID THEM BY FIFTY IN A CAVE, AND FED THEM WITH BREAD AND WATER.)
1╦╔ 18:5 ┴ND ┴HAB SAID UNTO ╧BADIAH, ╟O INTO THE LAND, UNTO ALL FOUNTAINS OF WATER, AND UNTO ALL BROOKS: PERADVENTURE WE MAY FIND GRASS TO SAVE THE HORSES AND MULES ALIVE, THAT WE LOSE NOT ALL THE BEASTS.
1╦╔ 18:6 ╙O THEY DIVIDED THE LAND BETWEEN THEM TO PASS THROUGHOUT IT: ┴HAB WENT ONE WAY BY HIMSELF, AND ╧BADIAH WENT ANOTHER WAY BY HIMSELF.
1╦╔ 18:7 ┴ND AS ╧BADIAH WAS IN THE WAY, BEHOLD, ┼LIJAH MET HIM: AND HE KNEW HIM, AND FELL ON HIS FACE, AND SAID, ┴RT THOU THAT MY LORD ┼LIJAH?
1╦╔ 18:8 ┴ND HE ANSWERED HIM, ╔ AM: GO, TELL THY LORD, ┬EHOLD, ┼LIJAH IS HERE.
1╦╔ 18:9 ┴ND HE SAID, ╫HAT HAVE ╔ SINNED, THAT THOU WOULDEST DELIVER THY SERVANT INTO THE HAND OF ┴HAB, TO SLAY ME?
1╦╔ 18:10 ┴S THE ╠╧╥─ THY ╟OD LIVETH, THERE IS NO NATION OR KINGDOM, WHITHER MY LORD HATH NOT SENT TO SEEK THEE: AND WHEN THEY SAID, ╚E IS NOT THERE; HE TOOK AN OATH OF THE KINGDOM AND NATION, THAT THEY FOUND THEE NOT.
1╦╔ 18:11 ┴ND NOW THOU SAYEST, ╟O, TELL THY LORD, ┬EHOLD, ┼LIJAH IS HERE.
1╦╔ 18:12 ┴ND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, AS SOON AS ╔ AM GONE FROM THEE, THAT THE ╙PIRIT OF THE ╠╧╥─ SHALL CARRY THEE WHITHER ╔ KNOW NOT; AND SO WHEN ╔ COME AND TELL ┴HAB, AND HE CANNOT FIND THEE, HE SHALL SLAY ME: BUT ╔ THY SERVANT FEAR THE ╠╧╥─ FROM MY YOUTH.
1╦╔ 18:13 ╫AS IT NOT TOLD MY LORD WHAT ╔ DID WHEN ╩EZEBEL SLEW THE PROPHETS OF THE ╠╧╥─, HOW ╔ HID AN HUNDRED MEN OF THE ╠╧╥─'S PROPHETS BY FIFTY IN A CAVE, AND FED THEM WITH BREAD AND WATER?
1╦╔ 18:14 ┴ND NOW THOU SAYEST, ╟O, TELL THY LORD, ┬EHOLD, ┼LIJAH IS HERE: AND HE SHALL SLAY ME.
1╦╔ 18:15 ┴ND ┼LIJAH SAID, ┴S THE ╠╧╥─ OF HOSTS LIVETH, BEFORE WHOM ╔ STAND, ╔ WILL SURELY SHEW MYSELF UNTO HIM TO DAY.
1╦╔ 18:16 ╙O ╧BADIAH WENT TO MEET ┴HAB, AND TOLD HIM: AND ┴HAB WENT TO MEET ┼LIJAH.
1╦╔ 18:17 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ┴HAB SAW ┼LIJAH, THAT ┴HAB SAID UNTO HIM, ┴RT THOU HE THAT TROUBLETH ╔SRAEL?
1╦╔ 18:18 ┴ND HE ANSWERED, ╔ HAVE NOT TROUBLED ╔SRAEL; BUT THOU, AND THY FATHER'S HOUSE, IN THAT YE HAVE FORSAKEN THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE ╠╧╥─, AND THOU HAST FOLLOWED ┬AALIM.
1╦╔ 18:19 ╬OW THEREFORE SEND, AND GATHER TO ME ALL ╔SRAEL UNTO MOUNT ├ARMEL, AND THE PROPHETS OF ┬AAL FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY, AND THE PROPHETS OF THE GROVES FOUR HUNDRED, WHICH EAT AT ╩EZEBEL'S TABLE.
1╦╔ 18:20 ╙O ┴HAB SENT UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL, AND GATHERED THE PROPHETS TOGETHER UNTO MOUNT ├ARMEL.
1╦╔ 18:21 ┴ND ┼LIJAH CAME UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, AND SAID, ╚OW LONG HALT YE BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? IF THE ╠╧╥─ BE ╟OD, FOLLOW HIM: BUT IF ┬AAL, THEN FOLLOW HIM. ┴ND THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD.
1╦╔ 18:22 ╘HEN SAID ┼LIJAH UNTO THE PEOPLE, ╔, EVEN ╔ ONLY, REMAIN A PROPHET OF THE ╠╧╥─; BUT ┬AAL'S PROPHETS ARE FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN.
1╦╔ 18:23 ╠ET THEM THEREFORE GIVE US TWO BULLOCKS; AND LET THEM CHOOSE ONE BULLOCK FOR THEMSELVES, AND CUT IT IN PIECES, AND LAY IT ON WOOD, AND PUT NO FIRE UNDER: AND ╔ WILL DRESS THE OTHER BULLOCK, AND LAY IT ON WOOD, AND PUT NO FIRE UNDER:
1╦╔ 18:24 ┴ND CALL YE ON THE NAME OF YOUR GODS, AND ╔ WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE ╠╧╥─: AND THE ╟OD THAT ANSWERETH BY FIRE, LET HIM BE ╟OD. ┴ND ALL THE PEOPLE ANSWERED AND SAID, ╔T IS WELL SPOKEN.
1╦╔ 18:25 ┴ND ┼LIJAH SAID UNTO THE PROPHETS OF ┬AAL, ├HOOSE YOU ONE BULLOCK FOR YOURSELVES, AND DRESS IT FIRST; FOR YE ARE MANY; AND CALL ON THE NAME OF YOUR GODS, BUT PUT NO FIRE UNDER.
1╦╔ 18:26 ┴ND THEY TOOK THE BULLOCK WHICH WAS GIVEN THEM, AND THEY DRESSED IT, AND CALLED ON THE NAME OF ┬AAL FROM MORNING EVEN UNTIL NOON, SAYING, ╧ ┬AAL, HEAR US. ┬UT THERE WAS NO VOICE, NOR ANY THAT ANSWERED. ┴ND THEY LEAPED UPON THE ALTAR WHICH WAS MADE.
1╦╔ 18:27 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AT NOON, THAT ┼LIJAH MOCKED THEM, AND SAID, ├RY ALOUD: FOR HE IS A GOD; EITHER HE IS TALKING, OR HE IS PURSUING, OR HE IS IN A JOURNEY, OR PERADVENTURE HE SLEEPETH, AND MUST BE AWAKED.
1╦╔ 18:28 ┴ND THEY CRIED ALOUD, AND CUT THEMSELVES AFTER THEIR MANNER WITH KNIVES AND LANCETS, TILL THE BLOOD GUSHED OUT UPON THEM.
1╦╔ 18:29 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN MIDDAY WAS PAST, AND THEY PROPHESIED UNTIL THE TIME OF THE OFFERING OF THE EVENING SACRIFICE, THAT THERE WAS NEITHER VOICE, NOR ANY TO ANSWER, NOR ANY THAT REGARDED.
1╦╔ 18:30 ┴ND ┼LIJAH SAID UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, ├OME NEAR UNTO ME. ┴ND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME NEAR UNTO HIM. ┴ND HE REPAIRED THE ALTAR OF THE ╠╧╥─ THAT WAS BROKEN DOWN.
1╦╔ 18:31 ┴ND ┼LIJAH TOOK TWELVE STONES, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE TRIBES OF THE SONS OF ╩ACOB, UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─ CAME, SAYING, ╔SRAEL SHALL BE THY NAME:
1╦╔ 18:32 ┴ND WITH THE STONES HE BUILT AN ALTAR IN THE NAME OF THE ╠╧╥─: AND HE MADE A TRENCH ABOUT THE ALTAR, AS GREAT AS WOULD CONTAIN TWO MEASURES OF SEED.
1╦╔ 18:33 ┴ND HE PUT THE WOOD IN ORDER, AND CUT THE BULLOCK IN PIECES, AND LAID HIM ON THE WOOD, AND SAID, ╞ILL FOUR BARRELS WITH WATER, AND POUR IT ON THE BURNT SACRIFICE, AND ON THE WOOD.
1╦╔ 18:34 ┴ND HE SAID, ─O IT THE SECOND TIME. ┴ND THEY DID IT THE SECOND TIME. ┴ND HE SAID, ─O IT THE THIRD TIME. ┴ND THEY DID IT THE THIRD TIME.
1╦╔ 18:35 ┴ND THE WATER RAN ROUND ABOUT THE ALTAR; AND HE FILLED THE TRENCH ALSO WITH WATER.
1╦╔ 18:36 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE TIME OF THE OFFERING OF THE EVENING SACRIFICE, THAT ┼LIJAH THE PROPHET CAME NEAR, AND SAID, ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ┴BRAHAM, ╔SAAC, AND OF ╔SRAEL, LET IT BE KNOWN THIS DAY THAT THOU ART ╟OD IN ╔SRAEL, AND THAT ╔ AM THY SERVANT, AND THAT ╔ HAVE DONE ALL THESE THINGS AT THY WORD.
1╦╔ 18:37 ╚EAR ME, ╧ ╠╧╥─, HEAR ME, THAT THIS PEOPLE MAY KNOW THAT THOU ART THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD, AND THAT THOU HAST TURNED THEIR HEART BACK AGAIN.
1╦╔ 18:38 ╘HEN THE FIRE OF THE ╠╧╥─ FELL, AND CONSUMED THE BURNT SACRIFICE, AND THE WOOD, AND THE STONES, AND THE DUST, AND LICKED UP THE WATER THAT WAS IN THE TRENCH.
1╦╔ 18:39 ┴ND WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE SAW IT, THEY FELL ON THEIR FACES: AND THEY SAID, ╘HE ╠╧╥─, HE IS THE ╟OD; THE ╠╧╥─, HE IS THE ╟OD.
1╦╔ 18:40 ┴ND ┼LIJAH SAID UNTO THEM, ╘AKE THE PROPHETS OF ┬AAL; LET NOT ONE OF THEM ESCAPE. ┴ND THEY TOOK THEM: AND ┼LIJAH BROUGHT THEM DOWN TO THE BROOK ╦ISHON, AND SLEW THEM THERE.
1╦╔ 18:41 ┴ND ┼LIJAH SAID UNTO ┴HAB, ╟ET THEE UP, EAT AND DRI K; FOR THERE IS A SOUND OF ABUNDANCE OF RAIN.
1╦╔ 18:42 ╙O ┴HAB WENT UP TO EAT AND TO DRINK. ┴ND ┼LIJAH WENT UP TO THE TOP OF ├ARMEL; AND HE CAST HIMSELF DOWN UPON THE EARTH, AND PUT HIS FACE BETWEEN HIS KNEES,
1╦╔ 18:43 ┴ND SAID TO HIS SERVANT, ╟O UP NOW, LOOK TOWARD THE SEA. ┴ND HE WENT UP, AND LOOKED, AND SAID, ╘HERE IS NOTHING. ┴ND HE SAID, ╟O AGAIN SEVEN TIMES.
1╦╔ 18:44 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE SEVENTH TIME, THAT HE SAID, ┬EHOLD, THERE ARISETH A LITTLE CLOUD OUT OF THE SEA, LIKE A MAN'S HAND. ┴ND HE SAID, ╟O UP, SAY UNTO ┴HAB, ╨REPARE THY CHARIOT, AND GET THEE DOWN THAT THE RAIN STOP THEE NOT.
1╦╔ 18:45 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MEAN WHILE, THAT THE HEAVEN WAS BLACK WITH CLOUDS AND WIND, AND THERE WAS A GREAT RAIN. ┴ND ┴HAB RODE, AND WENT TO ╩EZREEL.
1╦╔ 18:46 ┴ND THE HAND OF THE ╠╧╥─ WAS ON ┼LIJAH; AND HE GIRDED UP HIS LOINS, AND RAN BEFORE ┴HAB TO THE ENTRANCE OF ╩EZREEL.
