1 Kings 18:2

World English Bible (2000)

Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:26 : 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
  • Deut 28:23-24 : 23 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron. 24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
  • 2 Kgs 6:25 : 25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
  • Ps 27:1 : 1 Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 "I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;
  • Jer 14:2-6 : 2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. 4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. 5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
  • Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
  • Joel 1:15-20 : 15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. 16 Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. 18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. 19 Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. 20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you." 6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 18:1
    85%

    1 It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."

  • 1 Kgs 18:11-17
    7 verses
    82%

    11 Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

    12 It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh 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 Yahweh from my youth.

    13 Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

    14 Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here;"' and he will kill me."

    15 Elijah said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."

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

    17 It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?"

  • 1 Kgs 18:41-46
    6 verses
    77%

    41 Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain."

    42 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.

    43 He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." He went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing." He said, "Go again" seven times.

    44 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, 'Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn't stop you.'"

    45 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

    46 The hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

    28 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."

    2 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 17:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

    8 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

    9 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you."

  • 1 Kgs 18:3-9
    7 verses
    74%

    3 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly:

    4 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

    5 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."

    6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

    7 As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?"

    8 He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here!'"

    9 He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

  • 1 Kgs 21:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

    18 "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

  • 2 Chr 18:2
    73%

    2 After certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up [with him] to Ramoth Gilead.

  • 1 Kgs 18:20
    73%

    20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
    73%

    1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

  • Luke 4:25
    72%

    25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
    72%

    15 The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, "Go down with him. Don't be afraid of him." He arose, and went down with him to the king.

  • 1 Kgs 19:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.

    9 He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

  • 2 Kgs 1:3
    72%

    3 But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?

  • 1 Kgs 17:13
    71%

    13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

  • 2 Kgs 6:24
    71%

    24 It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 17:15
    71%

    15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.

  • 2 Kgs 2:25
    70%

    25 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 19:13
    70%

    13 It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

  • 1 Kgs 20:13
    70%

    13 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'"

  • 1 Kgs 18:36
    70%

    36 It happened at the time of the offering of the offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

  • Gen 43:1
    70%

    1 The famine was severe in the land.

  • 1 Kgs 19:3
    69%

    3 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
    69%

    9 Then [the king] sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down!'"

  • 1 Kgs 19:1
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 2:1
    69%

    1 It happened, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.