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1 Kings 18:42
“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.”
1 Kings 18:42 in the King James Version
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,Read 1 Kings 18:42 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 18
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.
It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, 'Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn't stop you.
Cross references for 1 Kings 18:42
- Luke 6:12
It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
- Acts 10:9
Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.
- Mark 14:35
He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
- Joshua 7:6
Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
- Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- 1 Kings 19:13
It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?
- 2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
- Psalms 89:7
a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
- 1 Kings 18:19-20
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table." So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and g...
- Isaiah 38:2
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,
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