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1 Kings 18:41
“Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
1 Kings 18:41 in the King James Version
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.Read 1 Kings 18:41 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 18
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, "Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!
Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.
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.
He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." He went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing." He said, "Go again" seven times.
Cross references for 1 Kings 18:41
- 1 Kings 18:1
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.
- 1 Kings 17:1
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.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
- Acts 27:34
Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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