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1 Kings 18:39 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “The LORD, he is God! The LORD, he is God!” "

1 Kings 18:39

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37 Hear me, LORD, hear me, that this people may know that you, LORD, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

38 Then the LORD’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust; and it licked up the water that was in the trench.

39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “The LORD, he is God! The LORD, he is God!”

40 Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

41 Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

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1 Kings 18:1

"After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”"

1 Kings 18:2

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

1 Kings 18:3

"Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly;"

1 Kings 18:4

"for when Jezebel cut off the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)"

1 Kings 18:5

"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.”"

1 Kings 18:6

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

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