Part 23

11:017:015 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

11:017:016 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

11:017:017 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

11:017:018 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

11:017:019 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

11:017:020 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

11:017:021 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.

11:017:022 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

11:017:023 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

11:017:024 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.

11:018:001 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

11:018:002 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.

11:018:003 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:

11:018:004 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

11:018:005 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

11:018:006 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

11:018:007 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

11:018:008 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

11:018:009 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

11:018:010 As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

11:018:011 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

11:018:012 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.

11:018:013 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

11:018:014 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

11:018:015 And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.

11:018:016 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

11:018:017 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

11:018:018 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.