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But as soon as I leave you, the Spirit of ADONAI will carry you off to I don't know where; so that when I come and tell Ach'av, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I your servant have revered ADONAI from my youth -
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wasn't my lord told what I did when Izevel killed ADONAI's prophets, how I hid a hundred of ADONAI's prophets by fifties in caves and supplied their food and water?
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Now you say, 'Go tell your master, "Look, Eliyahu is here."' Why, he'll kill me!"
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Eliyahu said, "As ADONAI-Tzva'ot lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to him today."
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So 'Ovadyah went, found Ach'av and told him; and Ach'av went to meet Eliyahu.
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When Ach'av saw Eliyahu, Ach'av said to him, "Is it really you, you troubler of Isra'el?"
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He answered, "I haven't troubled Isra'el, you have, you and your father's house, by abandoning ADONAI's mitzvot and following the ba'alim.
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Now order all Isra'el to assemble before me on Mount Karmel, along with the 450 prophets of Ba'al and the 400 prophets of the asherah who eat at Izevel's table."
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Ach'av sent word to all the people of Isra'el and assembled the prophets together on Mount Karmel.
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Eliyahu stepped forward before all the people and said, "How long are you going to jump back and forth between two positions? If ADONAI is God, follow him; but if it's Ba'al, follow him!" The people answered him not a word.
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Then Eliyahu said to the people, "I, I alone, am the only prophet of ADONAI who is left, while Ba'al's prophets number 450.