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Elijah
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Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
As they still went on, and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.” — read the full passage →
Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.” — read the full passage →
He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” — read the full passage →
Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. — read the full passage →
Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. — read the full passage →
If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, — read the full passage →
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →
At the time of the offering of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, 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. — read the full passage →
His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” — read the full passage →
Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” — read the full passage →
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”
Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”
For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’” — read the full passage →
They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”
Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.” — read the full passage →
When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. — read the full passage →
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.” — read the full passage →
He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?” — read the full passage →
When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →
Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, — read the full passage →
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.” — read the full passage →
No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →
Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →
Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people answered him not a word.
After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him. — read the full passage →
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”
When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.” They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. — read the full passage →
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. — read the full passage →
He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “It is well said.”
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months. — read the full passage →
Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. — read the full passage →
Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
An oracle: Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi. — read the full passage →
Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →
Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! — read the full passage →
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →
So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him.
He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. — read the full passage →
After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.” — read the full passage →
“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, — read the full passage →
Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, — read the full passage →
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” — read the full passage →
As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. — read the full passage →
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him: — read the full passage →
You shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. — read the full passage →
His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.” — read the full passage →
At the time of the offering of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, 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.
Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” — read the full passage →
God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” — read the full passage →
When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”
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