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As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found.
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And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here.
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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.
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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?
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And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.
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And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I stand, this day I will shew myself unto him.
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Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came to meet Elias.
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And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?
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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.
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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.
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Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together the prophets unto mount Carmel.