1 Kings 19:9

World English Bible (2000)

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?"

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  • Exod 33:21-22 : 21 Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
  • 1 Kgs 19:13 : 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?"
  • Jer 2:18 : 18 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
  • Jer 9:2 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
  • Jonah 1:3-4 : 3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. 4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
  • Gen 3:9 : 9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
  • Gen 16:8 : 8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

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  • 1 Kgs 19:10-14
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    10 He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

    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.

    12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

    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?"

    14 He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

  • 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 19:1-8
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    1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

    2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!"

    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.

    4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."

    5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat!"

    6 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and laid down again.

    7 The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you."

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8-9
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    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 18:11-17
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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.

    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?"

  • 2 Kgs 1:7-9
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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?"

    8 They answered him, "He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist." He said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."

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

  • 1 Kgs 21:17
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    17 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 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 18:7-9
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    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?

  • 2 Kgs 1:3-5
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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?

    4 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, "You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die."'" Elijah departed.

    5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, "Why is it that you have returned?"

  • 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 18:36
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    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 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 18:46
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    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 19:19
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    19 So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him.

  • 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.

  • 2 Kgs 2:4
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    4 Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
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    24 The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth."

  • 1 Kgs 17:19
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    19 He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

  • 1 Kgs 17:5
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    5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

  • 1 Kgs 18:4
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    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.)

  • 2 Kgs 1:11
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    11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down quickly!'"