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18:11. And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell thy master: Elias is
here.
18:12. And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry
thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and
he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord
from his infancy.
18:13. Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel
killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets
of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and
water?
18:14. And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that
he may kill me.
18:15. And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I
stand, this day I will shew myself unto him.
18:16. Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came
to meet Elias.
18:17. And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest
Israel?
18:18. And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy
father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have
followed Baalim.
18:19. Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount
Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the
prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.
18:20. Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together
the prophets unto mount Carmel.
18:21. And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt
between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then
follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.
18:22. And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of
the Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.
18:23. Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose one bullock for
themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it upon wood, but put no fire
under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put
no fire under it.
18:24. Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name of
my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God. And all
the people answering, said: A very good proposal.
18:25. Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock
and dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your
gods; but put no fire under.
18:26. And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it:
and they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon,
saying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered:
and they leaped over the altar that they had made.
18:27. And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with
a louder voice: for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an
inn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.
18:28. So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their
manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.
18:29. And after midday was past, and while they were prophesying, the
time was come of offering sacrifice, and there was no voice heard, nor
did any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed.
18:30. Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me. And the people
coming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken
down:
18:31. And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes
of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel
shall be thy name.
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