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Then stood up Elias 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 Elias, how wast thou honoured 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 honourably 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 anointedst 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: