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1 Kings 18:11
“Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 18
He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, 'He is not here,' he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.
Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here.
It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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