1 Kings 18:35
The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.
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- 1 Kgs 18:32 : 32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the LORD. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.
- 1 Kgs 18:38 : 38 Then fire from the LORD fell from the sky. It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.
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- 1 Kgs 18:32-343 verses81%
32With the stones he constructed an altar for the LORD. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.
33He arranged the wood, cut up the bull, and placed it on the wood. Then he said,“Fill four water jars and pour the water on the offering and the wood.”
34When they had done so, he said,“Do it again.” So they did it again. Then he said,“Do it a third time.” So they did it a third time.
- 1 Kgs 18:36-438 verses78%
36When it was time for the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and prayed:“O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
37Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are the true God and that you are winning back their allegiance.”
38Then fire from the LORD fell from the sky. It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.
39When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said,“The LORD is the true God! The LORD is the true God!”
40Elijah told them,“Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed them there.
41Then Elijah told Ahab,“Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.”
42So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.
43He told his servant,“Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported,“There is nothing.” Seven times Elijah sent him to look.
- 1 Kgs 18:28-303 verses75%
28So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood.
29Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, but there was no sound, no answer, and no response.
30Elijah then told all the people,“Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.
- 1 Kgs 17:1-88 verses73%
1Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives(whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”
2The LORD’s message came to him:
3“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
4Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”
5So he carried out the LORD’s message; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
6The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.
7After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
8The LORD’s message came to him,
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8Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, and hit the water with it. The water divided, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
- 2 Kgs 2:13-142 verses73%
13He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.
14He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, hit the water with it, and said,“Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.
- 1 Kgs 18:23-264 verses72%
23Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire.
24Then you will invoke the name of your god, and I will invoke the name of the LORD. The god who responds with fire will demonstrate that he is the true God.” All the people responded,“This will be a fair test.”
25Elijah told the prophets of Baal,“Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.”
26So they took a bull, as he had suggested, and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying,“Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped around on the altar they had made.
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1Water from the Temple Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east(for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar.
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20Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land.
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16and he said,“This is what the LORD has said,‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’
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30Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.
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1Elijah Meets the King’s Servant Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the LORD’S message came to Elijah,“Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
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13He offered his burnt sacrifice and his grain offering. He poured out his libation and sprinkled the blood from his peace offerings on the altar.
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11Jehoshaphat asked,“Is there no prophet of the LORD here that we might seek the LORD’s direction?” One of the servants of the king of Israel answered,“Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah’s servant.”
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46Now the LORD energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
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13Certainly my master is aware of what I did when Jezebel was killing the LORD’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the LORD’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.
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7You are to put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it.
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11Next he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and so anointed the altar, all its vessels, and the washbasin and its stand to consecrate them.
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13The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy,“Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.
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14For this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the LORD makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”
- 2 Kgs 2:20-223 verses70%
20Elisha said,“Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it.
21He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said,“This is what the LORD has said,‘I have purified this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.”
22The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied.
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5Meanwhile the altar split open and the ashes poured from the altar in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had given with the LORD’s message.
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16The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Elijah.
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16the altar for the burnt offering with its bronze grating that is on it, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin and its pedestal;
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28the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its base.
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25I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’