1 Kings 18

It happened after many days, that the word of Allah came to Ilyas, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth. ²Ilyas went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria. ³Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Allah greatly: ⁴for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Allah, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) ⁵Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals. ⁶So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. ⁷As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Ilyas met him: and Obadiah recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Ilyas? ⁸He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Ilyas is here. ⁹Obadiah said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? ¹⁰As Allah your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they did not find you. ¹¹Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Ilyas is here. ¹²It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Allah will carry you I do not know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Allah from my youth. ¹³Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Allah, how I hid one hundred men of Allah's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? ¹⁴Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Ilyas is here; and he will kill me. ¹⁵Ilyas said, As Allah, Lord of the universe lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today. ¹⁶So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Ilyas. ¹⁷It happened, when Ahab saw Ilyas, that Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel? ¹⁸He answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Allah, and you have followed the Baals. ¹⁹Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the four hundred fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table. ²⁰So Ahab sent to all Bani-Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel. ²¹Ilyas came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Allah is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word. ²²Then Ilyas said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Allah; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men. ²³Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it. ²⁴You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Allah; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God."

All the people answered, "It is well said." ²⁵Ilyas said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and prepare it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."

²⁶They took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar they made. ²⁷It happened at noon, that Ilyas mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened. ²⁸They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. ²⁹It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening offering; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded. ³⁰Ilyas said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Allah that was thrown down. ³¹Ilyas took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Yaqub, to whom the word of Allah came, saying, Israel shall be your name. ³²With the stones he built an altar in the name of Allah; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. ³³He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood. ³⁴He said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. He said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time. ³⁵The water ran around the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. ³⁶It happened at the time of the offering of the evening offering, that Ilyas the prophet came near, and said, Allah, the God of Ibrahim, of Ishaq, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. ³⁷Hear me, Allah, hear me, that this people may know that you, Allah, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again. ³⁸Then the fire of Allah fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. ³⁹When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Allah, he is God; Allah, he is God. ⁴⁰and Ilyas said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape. They took them; and Ilyas brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. ⁴¹Ilyas said to Ahab, Go, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain. ⁴²So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Ilyas went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees. ⁴³He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times. ⁴⁴It happened at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arises a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready your chariot, and go down, that the rain not stop you. ⁴⁵It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel: ⁴⁶and the hand of Allah was on Ilyas; and he tucked his cloak into his belt, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.