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Then the woman said to Elijah, "You are a man of God. Can you help me? Or did you come here only to remind me of my sins and to make my son die?"

Then Elijah cried out to the Lord . He said, " Lord my God, this widow is letting me stay in her house. Will you do this bad thing to her? Will you cause her son to die?"

Then Elijah lay on top of the boy three times. He prayed, " Lord my God, let this boy live again!"

The woman answered, "Now I know that you really are a man from God. I know that the Lord really speaks through you!"

As surely as the Lord your God lives, the king has been looking for you everywhere. He has sent people to every country to find you. He even made the rulers of those countries swear that you were not there.

Elijah came to all the people and said, "You must decide what you are going to do. How long will you keep jumping from one side to the other? If the Lord is the true God, follow him. But if Baal is the true God, then follow him!" The people said nothing.

Prophets of Baal, pray to your god, and I will pray to the Lord . Whichever god answers the prayer and starts the fire is the true God." All the people agreed that this was a good idea.

At noon Elijah began to make fun of them. He said, "If Baal really is a god, maybe you should pray louder! Maybe he is busy. Maybe he is thinking about something, or maybe he stepped out for a moment! He could be sleeping! Maybe you should pray louder and wake him up!"

At about the time for the afternoon sacrifice, the prophet Elijah approached the altar and prayed, " Lord , the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I ask you now to prove that you are the God of Israel and that I am your servant. Show these people that it was you who commanded me to do all these things.

Lord , answer my prayer. Show these people that you, Lord , are God and that you are the one who is bringing them back to you."

All the people saw this happen and bowed down to the ground and began saying, "The Lord is God! The Lord is God!"

So Elijah got up. He ate and drank and felt strong. Then Elijah walked for 40 days and nights to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.

Elijah answered, " Lord God All-Powerful, I have always served you the best I can, but the Israelites have broken their agreement with you. They destroyed your altars and killed your prophets. I am the only prophet left alive, and now they are trying to kill me!"

Elijah said, " Lord God All-Powerful, I have always served you the best that I can, but the Israelites broke their agreement with you. They destroyed your altars and killed your prophets. I am the only prophet left alive, and now they are trying to kill me."

A man of God came to the king of Israel with this message: "The Lord said, ‘The people of Aram said that I, the Lord , am a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys. So I will let you defeat this great army. Then all of you will know that I am the Lord , wherever you are!'"

Find some men who will tell lies about Naboth. They should say that they heard Naboth speak against the king and against God. Then take Naboth out of the city and kill him with stones."

Then two men told the people that they heard Naboth speak against God and the king. So the people carried Naboth out of the city and killed him with stones.

Ahaziah served the false god Baal and worshiped him, just as his father did before him. He did all the things that his father did to make the Lord , the God of Israel, angry.

One day Ahaziah was on the roof of his house in Samaria. He fell down through the wooden bars on top of his house and was badly hurt. He called messengers and told them, "Go to the priests of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, and ask them if I will get well from my injuries."

But the Lord 's angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, "King Ahaziah has sent some messengers from Samaria. Go meet those men and ask them, ‘There is a God in Israel, so why are you men going to ask questions of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?