Then he said, “Fill four water jars and pour the water on the offering and the wood.” When they had done so, he said, “Do it again.” So they did it again. Then he said, “Do it a third time.” So they did it a third time.

Ahab asked, “By whom will this be accomplished?” He answered, “This is what the Lord says, ‘By the servants of the district governors.’” Ahab asked, “Who will launch the attack?” He answered, “You will.”

He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Seven times Elijah sent him to look.

He added, “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”

Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?” Hadad replied, “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.”

and took off after the prophet, whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”

When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah replied, “I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die there?’ One said this and another that.

Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, all you people.”

Jeroboam then thought to himself: “Now the Davidic dynasty could regain the kingdom.

He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.”

He replied, “Yes, go and say to your master, ‘Elijah is back.’”

Then a spirit stepped forward and stood before the Lord. He said, ‘I will deceive him.’ The Lord asked him, ‘How?’

He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. Go out and do as you have proposed.’

Bathsheba bowed down on the floor before the king. The king said, “What do you want?”

The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me from every danger),

Jonathan replied to Adonijah: “No! Our master King David has made Solomon king.

The king ordered, “Get me a sword!” So they placed a sword before the king.

He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it