1 Kings 18:17

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When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?"

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  • Josh 7:25 : 25 Joshua said, "Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will trouble you today." Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them with fire.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 Ahab said to Elijah, 'So, have you found me, my enemy?' 'I have found you,' he answered, 'because you have devoted yourself to doing evil in the eyes of the LORD.'
  • Acts 16:20 : 20 They brought them before the magistrates and said, 'These men are Jews, and they are causing an uproar in our city.'
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city rulers, shouting, 'These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here too.'
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 We have found this man to be a troublemaker, stirring up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
  • Jer 26:8-9 : 8 And when Jeremiah finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, the prophets, and all the people seized him, saying, 'You shall surely die!' 9 'Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, “This house will become like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitants”?' And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the LORD's house.
  • Jer 38:4 : 4 The officials said to the king, "This man must be put to death, because he is discouraging the soldiers who remain in the city and all the people by speaking these words to them. He is not seeking the welfare of this people, but only their harm."
  • Amos 7:10 : 10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, 'Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.'

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  • 1 Kgs 18:18
    87%

    18 Elijah replied, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, by abandoning the commandments of the LORD and following the Baals.

  • 1 Kgs 18:14-16
    3 verses
    80%

    14 And now you say, 'Go and tell your master, Elijah is here,' and he will kill me!

    15 But Elijah said, "As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, whom I serve, I will show myself to him today."

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

  • 1 Kgs 21:20
    79%

    20 Ahab said to Elijah, 'So, have you found me, my enemy?' 'I have found you,' he answered, 'because you have devoted yourself to doing evil in the eyes of the LORD.'

  • 1 Kgs 18:6-12
    7 verses
    76%

    6 So they divided the land between them to search it. Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself.

    7 While Obadiah was walking along the road, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed to the ground, and said, "Is it really you, my lord Elijah?"

    8 Elijah replied, "It is I. Go and tell your master, 'Elijah is here.'"

    9 But Obadiah said, "What have I done wrong that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be killed?"

    10 "As surely as the LORD your God lives," he continued, "there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever they said, 'He is not here,' he made the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you.

    11 Now you tell me, 'Go and say to your master, Elijah is here!'

    12 But I, your servant, fear that if I leave, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you off to some place I don't know, and when I go to tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me. Yet I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27-29
    3 verses
    75%

    27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went about meekly.

    28 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

    29 'Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring disaster during his lifetime; but in the days of his son, I will bring disaster on his house.'

  • 1 Kgs 21:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

    18 'Get up and go down to meet Ahab, king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth’s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 After many days, the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land."

    2 So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. The famine in Samaria was severe.

    3 Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Now Obadiah revered the LORD greatly.)

  • 2 Kgs 1:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7 The king asked them, 'What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?'

    8 They replied, 'He was a man with a garment of hair and a leather belt around his waist.' The king said, 'It was Elijah the Tishbite.'

    9 Then the king sent a captain with his fifty men to Elijah. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of the hill, and said to him, 'Man of God, the king says, "Come down."'

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."

    2 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 18:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel.

    21 Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him." But the people said nothing.

  • 1 Kgs 20:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 Meanwhile, a prophet approached Ahab, king of Israel, and said, 'This is what the LORD says: Do you see this vast army? I will give it into your hand today, and you will know that I am the LORD.'

    14 Then Ahab asked, 'By whom will this be accomplished?' The prophet replied, 'This is what the LORD says: By the young men of the provincial leaders.' Ahab further asked, 'Who will start the battle?' The prophet answered, 'You will.'

  • 1 Kgs 18:36
    72%

    36 At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached and said, "LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that You are God in Israel, that I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your command.

  • 2 Kgs 1:3
    71%

    3 But the angel of the LORD told Elijah the Tishbite, 'Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?"'

  • 1 Kgs 17:18
    71%

    18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, man of God? Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?"

  • 1 Kgs 19:13
    71%

    13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak, went out, and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then a voice came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'

  • 1 Kgs 19:9
    71%

    9 There he went into a cave and spent the night. The word of the LORD came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
    71%

    15 The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, 'Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.' So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.

  • 1 Kgs 19:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

    2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, 'May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I don’t make your life like the life of one of them.'

  • 2 Chr 18:17
    70%

    17 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, 'Didn't I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?'

  • 1 Kgs 18:45-46
    2 verses
    70%

    45 In a short while, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. Ahab mounted his chariot and rode to Jezreel.

    46 The hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

  • 1 Kgs 22:18
    70%

    18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, 'Didn’t I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, only bad?'

  • 1 Kgs 18:41-43
    3 verses
    70%

    41 Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.

    42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink, but Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel, crouched down to the ground, and put his face between his knees.

    43 Then he said to his servant, "Go and look toward the sea." So he went and looked and said, "There is nothing." Seven times Elijah told him, "Go back."

  • 2 Chr 18:19
    69%

    19 And the LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab king of Israel into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?' One suggested this, and another that.

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
    69%

    13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do we have to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." But the king of Israel said to him, "No, because it is the LORD who has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab."

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    68%

    24 Then the woman said to Elijah, 'Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.'

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
    68%

    21 When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, "My father, should I kill them? Should I kill them?"

  • 2 Kgs 6:11
    68%

    11 The king of Aram became very upset about this. He called his servants and said to them, "Will you not tell me who among us is on the side of the king of Israel?"

  • 2 Kgs 10:17
    68%

    17 When Jehu arrived in Samaria, he struck down all who remained of Ahab’s household in Samaria until he had destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken through Elijah.

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