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So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

And Jerobo'am appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices upon the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jerobo'am stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Lay hold of him." And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.

for so was it commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall neither eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way that you came.'"

So he went another way, and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.

And he said to his sons, "Saddle the ass for me." So they saddled the ass for him and he mounted it.

So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

And this thing became sin to the house of Jerobo'am, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.

Jerobo'am's wife did so; she arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahi'jah. Now Ahi'jah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

So Ba'asha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

So Omri went up from Gib'bethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri became king.

So he went and did according to the word of the LORD; he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.

So he arose and went to Zar'ephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, "Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."

After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

So Eli'jah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Sama'ria.

So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadi'ah went in another direction by himself.

And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you whither I know not; and so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have revered the LORD from my youth.

So Obadi'ah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Eli'jah.

So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel, and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.