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So the king's wife did what he said. She went to the home of Ahijah the prophet in Shiloh. Ahijah was very old and had become blind.

So Jeroboam, I will bring troubles to your family. I will kill all the men in your family. I will destroy your family completely, like fire burning up dung.

Then the Lord will punish Israel. The Israelites will be so full of fear that they will shake like tall grass in the water. He will pull Israel up from this good land that he gave their ancestors. He will scatter them to the other side of the Euphrates River. The Lord will do this because the people made him angry when they built sacred poles.

There were also men who served other gods by selling their bodies for sex. So the people of Judah were worse than the people who had lived in the land before them. And the Lord took the land away from those people to give it to the Israelites.

So Asa took gold and silver from the treasuries of the Lord 's Temple and the king's palace. He gave it to his officials and sent them to King Ben-Hadad of Aram. Ben-Hadad was the son of Tabrimmon. Tabrimmon was the son of Hezion. Damascus was Ben-Hadad's capital city.

This happened during Asa's third year as king of Judah. So Baasha became the next king of Israel.

So Baasha, I will destroy you and your family, just as I did Jeroboam son of Nebat and his family.

So Zimri destroyed Baasha's family just as the Lord said he would when he spoke against Baasha through the prophet Jehu.

Omri was the commander of the army of Israel. The men in the camp heard that Zimri had made secret plans against the king and killed him. So in the camp all the soldiers made Omri the new king.

So Zimri died because he sinned and did what the Lord said was wrong, just as Jeroboam did when he caused the Israelites to sin.

So Elijah did what the Lord told him to do. He went to live near Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan River.

There was no rain, so after a while the stream became dry.

So Elijah went to Zarephath. He went to the town gate and saw a woman there gathering wood for a fire. She was a widow. Elijah said to her, "Would you bring me a small cup of water to drink?"

So the woman went home and did what Elijah told her to do. And Elijah, the woman, and her son had enough food for a long time.

So Elijah went to meet with Ahab. The famine was very bad in Samaria.

So King Ahab told Obadiah to come to him. Obadiah was the man in charge of the king's palace. (Obadiah was a true follower of the Lord .

So Obadiah went to King Ahab and told him where Elijah was. King Ahab went to meet Elijah.

So Ahab called all the Israelites and those prophets to Mount Carmel.

So Elijah said, "I am the only prophet of the Lord here, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.

So bring us two bulls. Let the prophets of Baal have one bull. Let them kill it, cut it into pieces, and then put the meat on the wood. But don't start the fire. I will do the same with the other bull, and I will not start the fire either.