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After many days the word of the Lord came to Elias ,
in the third year ,
saying :
Go and shew thyself to Achab ,
that I may give rain upon the face of the earth .
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And Elias went to shew himself to Achab ,
and there was a grievous famine in Samaria .
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And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house :
now Abdias feared the Lord very much .
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For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord ,
he took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves ,
and fed them with bread and water .
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And Achab said to Abdias :
Go into the land unto all fountains of waters ,
and into all valleys ,
to see if we can find grass ,
and save the horses and mules ,
that the beasts may not utterly perish .
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And they divided the countries between them ,
that they might go round about them :
Achab went one way ,
and Abdias another way by himself .
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And as Abdias was in the way ,
Elias met him :
and he knew him ,
and fell on his face ,
and said :
Art thou my lord Elias ?
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And he answered :
I am .
Go ,
and tell thy master :
Elias is here .
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And he said :
What have I sinned ,
that thou wouldst deliver me thy servant into the hand of Achab ,
that he should kill me ?
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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 .