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1 Kings 18 (NIV)

18:1 After a long time, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.
 

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1 Kings 18:3 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, his palace administrator.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] (Obadiah was a devout believer[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] in the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT]
 

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1 Kings 18:4 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]While Jezebel[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] was killing off the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot]’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] them with food and water.)[/FONT]
 
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1 Kings 18:5 (ESV)
And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.”
 

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1 Kings 18:6 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]So they divided the land they were to cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in another.[/FONT]
 

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1 Kings 18:7 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?”[/FONT]
 

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[h=1](1 Kings 18:8): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]8 “Yes,” he replied. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here.’”

 

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[h=1](1 Kings 18:9): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]9 “What have I done wrong,” asked Obadiah, “that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death?

 

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1 Kings 18:10 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]As surely as the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you.[/FONT]
 

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1 Kings 18:12 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]I don’t know where the Spirit[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] may carry you when I leave you. If I go and tell Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. Yet I your servant have worshiped the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] since my youth[/FONT]
 

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1 kings 18:13*Haven’t you been told what I did? When Jezebel was killing the*Lord’s prophets, I hid a hundred of them, fifty in one cave and fifty in another. I brought them food and water.*
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1 Kings 18:14 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]And now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’ He will kill me!”[/FONT]
 

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1 Kings 18:15 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Elijah said, “As the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] myself to Ahab today.”[/FONT]
 

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[h=1](1 Kings 18:16): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

 

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[h=1](1 Kings 18:17): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is this you, you troubler of Israel?”
 

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1 Kings 18:18 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]“I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] and your father’s family have. You have abandoned[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot]’s commands and have followed the Baals.[/FONT]
 
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1 Kings 18:19 (HCSB)
Now summon all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel, along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table."