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Then stood up Elijah the prophet as fire, and his word burned like a lamp.
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He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he diminished their number.
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By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and also three times brought down fire.
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O Elijah, how wast thou honored in thy wondrous deeds! And who may glory like unto thee!--
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who didst raise up a dead man from death, and his soul from the place of the dead, by the word of the Most High;
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who broughtest kings to destruction, and honorable men from their bed;
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who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai, and in Horeb the judgment of vengeance;
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who annointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to succeed after him;
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who was taken up in a whirlwind of fire, and in a chariot of fiery horses;