< 1 Kings 18 >
1 And the days are many, and the word of YHWH has been to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, appear to Ahab, and I give rain on the face of the ground”;
and to be day many and word LORD to be to(wards) Elijah in/on/with year [the] third to/for to say to go: went to see: see to(wards) Ahab and to give: give rain upon face: surface [the] land: country
2 and Elijah goes to appear to Ahab. And the famine is severe in Samaria,
and to go: went Elijah to/for to see: see to(wards) Ahab and [the] famine strong in/on/with Samaria
3 and Ahab calls to Obadiah, who [is] over the house—and Obadiah has been fearing YHWH greatly,
and to call: call to Ahab to(wards) Obadiah which upon [the] house: household and Obadiah to be afraid [obj] LORD much
4 and it comes to pass, in Jezebel’s cutting off the prophets of YHWH, that Obadiah takes one hundred prophets, and hides them, fifty men in a cave, and has sustained them with bread and water—
and to be in/on/with to cut: eliminate Jezebel [obj] prophet LORD and to take: take Obadiah hundred prophet and to hide them fifty man in/on/with cave and to sustain them food: bread and water
5 and Ahab says to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all fountains of waters, and to all the brooks, perhaps we find hay, and keep alive horse and mule, and do not cut off any of the livestock.”
and to say Ahab to(wards) Obadiah to go: went in/on/with land: country/planet to(wards) all spring [the] water and to(wards) all [the] torrent: valley perhaps to find grass and to live horse and mule and not to cut: lack from [the] animal
6 And they apportion the land to themselves, to pass over into it; Ahab has gone in one way by himself, and Obadiah has gone in another way by himself;
and to divide to/for them [obj] [the] land: country/planet to/for to pass in/on/with her Ahab to go: went in/on/with way: direction one to/for alone him and Obadiah to go: went in/on/with way: direction one to/for alone him
7 and Obadiah [is] in the way, and behold, Elijah [is there] to meet him; and he discerns him, and falls on his face and says, “Are you he—my lord Elijah?”
and to be Obadiah in/on/with way: journey and behold Elijah to/for to encounter: meet him and to recognize him and to fall: fall upon face his and to say you(m. s.) this lord my Elijah
8 And he says to him, “I [am]; go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah.”
and to say to/for him I to go: went to say to/for lord your behold Elijah
9 And he says, “What have I sinned, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab—to put me to death?
and to say what? to sin for you(m. s.) to give: give [obj] servant/slave your in/on/with hand: power Ahab to/for to die me
10 Your God YHWH lives, if there is a nation and kingdom to where my lord has not sent to seek [for] you; and they said, He is not, then he caused the kingdom and the nation to swear, that it does not find you;
alive LORD God your if: surely no there nation and kingdom which not to send: depart lord my there to/for to seek you and to say nothing and to swear [obj] [the] kingdom and [obj] [the] nation for not to find you
11 and now, you are saying, Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah;
and now you(m. s.) to say to go: went to say to/for lord your behold Elijah
12 and it has been, I go from you, and the Spirit of YHWH lifts you up to where I do not know, and I have come to declare to Ahab, and he does not find you, and he has slain me; and your servant is fearing YHWH from my youth.
and to be I to go: went from with you and spirit LORD to lift: bear you upon which not to know and to come (in): come to/for to tell to/for Ahab and not to find you and to kill me and servant/slave your afraid [obj] LORD from youth my
13 Has it not been declared to my lord that which I have done in Jezebel’s slaying the prophets of YHWH, that I hide one hundred men of the prophets of YHWH, fifty by fifty in a cave, and sustained them with bread and water?
not to tell to/for lord my [obj] which to make: do in/on/with to kill Jezebel [obj] prophet LORD and to hide from prophet LORD hundred man fifty fifty man in/on/with cave and to sustain them food: bread and water
14 And now you are saying, Go, say to my lord, Behold, Elijah—and he has slain me!”
and now you(m. s.) to say to go: went to say to/for lord your behold Elijah and to kill me
15 And Elijah says, “YHWH of Hosts lives, before whom I have stood, surely I appear to him today.”
and to say Elijah alive LORD Hosts which to stand: stand to/for face: before his for [the] day to see: see to(wards) him
16 Obadiah goes to meet Ahab, and declares [it] to him, and Ahab goes to meet Elijah.
and to go: went Obadiah to/for to encounter: meet Ahab and to tell to/for him and to go: went Ahab to/for to encounter: meet Elijah
17 [And it] comes to pass at Ahab’s seeing Elijah that Ahab says to him, “Are you he—the troubler of Israel?”
and to be like/as to see: see Ahab [obj] Elijah and to say Ahab to(wards) him you(m. s.) this to trouble Israel
18 And he says, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and the house of your father, in your forsaking the commands of YHWH, and you go after the Ba‘alim;
and to say not to trouble [obj] Israel that if: except if: except you(m. s.) and house: household father your in/on/with to leave: forsake you [obj] commandment LORD and to go: follow after [the] Baal
19 and now, send, gather all Israel to me, to the Mount of Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Ba‘al, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who are eating at the table of Jezebel.”
and now to send: depart to gather to(wards) me [obj] all Israel to(wards) mountain: mount [the] (Mount) Carmel and [obj] prophet [the] Baal four hundred and fifty and prophet [the] Asherah four hundred to eat table Jezebel
20 And Ahab sends among all the sons of Israel, and gathers the prophets to the Mount of Carmel;
and to send: depart Ahab in/on/with all son: descendant/people Israel and to gather [obj] [the] prophet to(wards) mountain: mount [the] (Mount) Carmel
21 and Elijah comes near to all the people and says, “Until when are you leaping on the two branches? If YHWH [is] God, go after Him; and if Ba‘al, go after him”; and the people have not answered him a word.
and to approach: approach Elijah to(wards) all [the] people and to say till how you(m. p.) to limp upon two [the] division if LORD [the] God to go: follow after him and if [the] Baal to go: follow after him and not to answer [the] people [obj] him word
22 And Elijah says to the people, “I have been left, by myself, a prophet of YHWH; and the prophets of Ba‘al [are] four hundred and fifty men;
and to say Elijah to(wards) [the] people I to remain prophet to/for LORD to/for alone me and prophet [the] Baal four hundred and fifty man
23 and let them give two bullocks to us, and they choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and place [it] on the wood, and place no fire; and I prepare the other bullock, and have put [it] on the wood, and I do not place fire—
and to give: give to/for us two bullock and to choose to/for them [the] bullock [the] one and to cut him and to set: put upon [the] tree: wood and fire not to set: put and I to make [obj] [the] bullock [the] one and to give: put upon [the] tree: wood and fire not to set: put
24 and you have called in the name of your god, and I call in the Name of YHWH, and it has been, the god who answers by fire—He [is] the God.” And all the people answer and say, “The word [is] good.”
and to call: call to in/on/with name God your and I to call: call to in/on/with name LORD and to be [the] God which to answer in/on/with fire he/she/it [the] God and to answer all [the] people and to say pleasant [the] word: speaking
25 And Elijah says to the prophets of Ba‘al, “Choose one bullock for yourselves, and prepare [it] first, for you [are] the multitude, and call in the name of your god, and place no fire.”
and to say Elijah to/for prophet [the] Baal to choose to/for you [the] bullock [the] one and to make first for you(m. p.) [the] many and to call: call to in/on/with name God your and fire not to set: put
26 And they take the bullock that [one] gave to them, and prepare [it], and call in the name of Ba‘al from the morning even until the noon, saying, “O Ba‘al, answer us!” And there is no voice, and there is none answering; and they leap on the altar that one had made.
and to take: take [obj] [the] bullock which to give: give to/for them and to make and to call: call to in/on/with name [the] Baal from [the] morning and till [the] midday to/for to say [the] Baal to answer us and nothing voice and nothing to answer and to limp upon [the] altar which to make
27 And it comes to pass, at noon, that Elijah mocks at them and says, “Call with a loud voice, for he [is] a god, for he is meditating, or pursuing, or on a journey; it may be he is asleep, and awakes.”
and to be in/on/with midday and to mock in/on/with them Elijah and to say to call: call out in/on/with voice great: large for God he/she/it for complaint and for pursuing to/for him and for way: journey to/for him perhaps sleeping he/she/it and to awake
28 And they call with a loud voice, and cut themselves, according to their ordinance, with swords and with spears, until a flowing of blood [is] on them;
and to call: call out in/on/with voice great: large and to cut like/as justice: custom their in/on/with sword and in/on/with spear till to pour: pour blood upon them
29 and it comes to pass, at the passing by of the noon, that they feign themselves prophets until the going up of the present, and there is no voice, and there is none answering, and there is none attending.
and to be like/as to pass [the] midday and to prophesy till to/for to ascend: offer up [the] offering and nothing voice and nothing to answer and nothing attentiveness
30 And Elijah says to all the people, “Come near to me”; and all the people come near to him, and he repairs the altar of YHWH that is broken down;
and to say Elijah to/for all [the] people to approach: approach to(wards) me and to approach: approach all [the] people to(wards) him and to heal [obj] altar LORD [the] to overthrow
31 and Elijah takes twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of YHWH was, saying, “Israel is your name”;
and to take: take Elijah two ten stone like/as number tribe son: descendant/people Jacob which to be word LORD to(wards) him to/for to say Israel to be name your
32 and he builds an altar with the stones, in the Name of YHWH, and makes a trench, as about the space of two measures of seed, around the altar.
and to build [obj] [the] stone altar in/on/with name LORD and to make conduit like/as house: container seah seed around to/for altar
33 And he arranges the wood, and cuts the bullock in pieces, and places [it] on the wood, and says, “Fill four pitchers of water, and pour [them] on the burnt-offering, and on the wood”;
and to arrange [obj] [the] tree: wood and to cut [obj] [the] bullock and to set: put upon [the] tree: wood and to say to fill four jar water and to pour: pour upon [the] burnt offering and upon [the] tree: wood
34 and he says, “Do [it] a second time”; and they do [it] a second time; and he says, “Do [it] a third time”; and they do [it] a third time;
and to say to repeat and to repeat and to say to do three and to do three
35 and the water goes around the altar, and he has also filled the trench with water.
and to go: walk [the] water around to/for altar and also [obj] [the] conduit to fill water
36 And it comes to pass, at the going up of the [evening] present, that Elijah the prophet comes near and says, “YHWH, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that You [are] God in Israel, and that I, Your servant, have done the whole of these things by Your word;
and to be in/on/with to ascend: offer up [the] offering and to approach: approach Elijah [the] prophet and to say LORD God Abraham Isaac and Israel [the] day: today to know for you(m. s.) God in/on/with Israel and I servant/slave your (and in/on/with word your *Q(K)*) to make: do [obj] all [the] word [the] these
37 answer me, O YHWH, answer me, and this people [then] knows that You [are] YHWH God; and You have turned their heart backward.”
to answer me LORD to answer me and to know [the] people [the] this for you(m. s.) LORD [the] God and you(m. s.) to turn: turn [obj] heart their backwards
38 And a fire falls [from] YHWH, and consumes the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and it has licked up the water that [is] in the trench.
and to fall: fall fire LORD and to eat [obj] [the] burnt offering and [obj] [the] tree: wood and [obj] [the] stone and [obj] [the] dust and [obj] [the] water which in/on/with conduit to lick
39 And all the people see, and fall on their faces, and say, “YHWH, He [is] the God! YHWH, He [is] the God!”
and to see: see all [the] people and to fall: fall upon face their and to say LORD he/she/it [the] God LORD he/she/it [the] God
40 And Elijah says to them, “Catch the prophets of Ba‘al; do not let a man escape from them”; and they catch them, and Elijah brings them down to the Brook of Kishon, and slaughters them there.
and to say Elijah to/for them to capture [obj] prophet [the] Baal man: anyone not to escape from them and to capture them and to go down them Elijah to(wards) torrent: valley Kishon and to slaughter them there
41 And Elijah says to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, because of the sound of the noise of the shower.”
and to say Elijah to/for Ahab to ascend: rise to eat and to drink for voice: sound crowd [the] rain
42 And Ahab goes up to eat, and to drink, and Elijah has gone up to the top of Carmel, and he stretches himself out on the earth, and he places his face between his knees,
and to ascend: rise Ahab to/for to eat and to/for to drink and Elijah to ascend: rise to(wards) head: top [the] (Mount) Carmel and to bend (down) land: soil [to] and to set: put face his between (knee his *Q(K)*)
43 and says to his young man, “Now go up, look attentively [toward] the way of the sea”; and he goes up and looks attentively, and says, “There is nothing”; and he says, “Turn back,” seven times.
and to say to(wards) youth his to ascend: rise please to look way: direction sea and to ascend: rise and to look and to say nothing anything and to say to return: again seven beat
44 And it comes to pass, at the seventh, that he says, “Behold, a little thickness as the palm of a man is coming up out of the sea.” And he says, “Go up, say to Ahab, Bind and go down, and the shower does not restrain you.”
and to be in/on/with seventh and to say behold cloud small like/as palm man to ascend: rise from sea and to say to ascend: rise to say to(wards) Ahab to bind and to go down and not to restrain you [the] rain
45 And it comes to pass, in the meantime, that the heavens have become black—thick clouds and wind—and the shower is great; and Ahab rides, and goes to Jezreel,
and to be till thus and till thus and [the] heaven be dark cloud and spirit: breath and to be rain great: large and to ride Ahab and to go: went Jezreel [to]
46 and the hand of YHWH has been on Elijah, and he girds up his loins, and runs before Ahab, until your entering Jezreel.
and hand: power LORD to be to(wards) Elijah and to gird loin his and to run: run to/for face: before Ahab till to come (in): towards you Jezreel [to]