1 After many days, the word of Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the Earth.
2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a severe famine in Samaria.
3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah reverenced Jehovah greatly:
4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hidden them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
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 And as Obadiah was in the way, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, are you that my lord Elijah?
8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell your lord, Elijah is here.
9 And he said, What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
10 As Jehovah your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you; and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found you not.
11 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Elijah is here.
12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry you where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he shall slay me: but I your servant reverence Jehovah from my youth.
13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah 's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
14 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
15 And Elijah said, As Jehovah of hosts 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 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Are you he who troubles Israel?"
18 And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah, and you have followed Baalim.
19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah poles four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table."
20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to mount Carmel.
21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt you between two opinions? If Jehovah be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
22 Then said Elijah to the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of Jehovah; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will prepare the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
24 And call you on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of Jehovah: and the God that answers by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
25 And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and prepare it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Oh Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
27 At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleeps, and must be awaked.
28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, until the blood gushed out upon them.
29 When midday had passed, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
30 And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of Jehovah that was broken down.
31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Jehovah came, saying, Israel shall be your name:
32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Jehovah: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
35 And the water ran on every side of the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
36 At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Jehovah God of Abraham, 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.
37 Hear me, oh, Jehovah, hear me, that this people may know that you are Jehovah God, and that you have turned their mind back again.
38 Then the fire of Jehovah fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Jehovah, he is the God; Jehovah, he is the God.
40 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
41 And Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the Earth, and put his face between his knees,
43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
44 At the seventh time, he said, there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Prepare your chariot, and get yourself down, that the rain stop you not.
45 In the mean while, the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
46 And the hand of Jehovah was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.