1 Kings 18:43

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 32:26 : 26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
  • Ps 5:3 : 3 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
  • Luke 18:1 : 1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
  • Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. 37 "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

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  • 1 Kgs 18:44-46
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    88%

    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 18:41-42
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2
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    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."

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

  • 1 Kgs 18:11-12
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
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    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 17:7-8
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    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,

  • 2 Kgs 7:2
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    2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
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    28 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 7:19
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    19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, "Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?" and he said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."

  • 2 Kgs 2:16-18
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    72%

    16 They said to him, "See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, "You shall not send them."

    17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, "Send them." They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn't find him.

    18 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'"

  • 2 Kgs 6:12-13
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    12 One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."

    13 He said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." It was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."

  • 1 Kgs 18:8-9
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    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 20:13
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    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.'"

  • 2 Kgs 1:13
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    13 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, "Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.

  • 1 Kgs 19:3
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 18:16-17
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    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?"

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
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    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 18:14
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    14 Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here;"' and he will kill me."

  • 1 Kgs 19:13
    69%

    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?"

  • 2 Kgs 3:11
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    11 But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?" One of the king of Israel's servants answered, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah."

  • 2 Kgs 10:10
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    10 Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah."

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
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    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!'"

  • 2 Kgs 7:13
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    13 One of his servants answered, "Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let us send and see."

  • 1 Kgs 17:14
    69%

    14 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"

  • 2 Kgs 1:7
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    7 He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?"

  • 1 Kgs 21:17-18
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 18:5-6
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 18:35-36
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    35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
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    17 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

  • 2 Kgs 1:3
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    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?

  • 2 Kgs 8:14
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    14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" He answered, "He told me that you would surely recover."

  • 2 Kgs 7:5
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    5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.

  • 1 Kgs 19:8-9
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    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?"

  • 1 Kgs 19:11
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    11 He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh." Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.