I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 369

33 18--32 THE MONARCHICAL PERIOD.-·—-I. KINGS. 19—-—1o took twelve stones, for the number of the Tribes of the sons of }a.cob, to whom came the message ofthe EVER- Your name shall be and builbwith those stones an altar to the name of the EVER- Lxvmc, and made a trench round the altar, ofthe capacity of two saths 1 of grain, and spread the wood, and divided the bull-ook, and laid it upon

Fill four 35 37 39 43 casks with water, and pour them over Then he and they re- Triple So they tripled it; and the water ran round the altar, and also filled the trench with water, and the trench overtlowed to the Alter. ®1i¤l;’¤ §rug2r Then Eliah the Preacher approach-

EvE1z~L1v1NG,Go1> of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to·day let it be known that You are GOD in Israel; that I am Your servant, and that I have done by Your command all these things.·———Answer, EvER·L1v· ING! Answer-! When these people will know that You are the EVER- LIVING Gon, and that You would turn their hearts after You} And the fire from the EVER—L1v1NG

fell upon and devoured the Offering and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench! When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces The Evan-Livme, He is the Gon! The EvsR~L1v1Ne, He is the GOD! Seize

the Preachers of Bal, every one: let not one of them escape! So they seized them ;——and Eliah

led them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there! Go on, eat and drink, for there is a mur- muring sound of rain. Akhab consequently went up and

ate and drank, while Eliah went to the top of Karmel and bowed himself earthward, and put his face between his knees, and said to his attendant, ‘Go up now, and look out towards So he went up and looked out, and

1 Probably capable of holding two hogs- heads. There is nothing what— @-be Zitilz ®l¤u2r. Return seven

And at the seventh he re- 1 see a little cloud like a man's hand coming up from the sea.’ Go, and tell Akhab,

‘ Turn and descend,··—or the rain will ’ And between this and that the skies became dark with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain, and Akhab mounted and went to ]ezral,·——but the hand of the Even-1.1v1No was upon Eliah, and he girt up his loins and ran before Akhab to the entrance of jezral. Qlyair dunmtiis init!] Qesnhzl. 44 45

But Akhab informed Aisebal of all 19 that Eiiah had done, and how he had slain all her Preachers by the sword; therefore Aisebal sent a messenger 2 May the gods do so to me, and add to it,-——if your life shall not be like the life of one of them by to·morrow at this time ! ®1ialy Ries in Qcrsbrhs, ibm in `§¤r2h. the §il1 of 45nh. Then he was afraid, and rose, and

went for his life, and arrived at Ber~ sheba, belonging to judah, and left his attendant there; he, however, went a day's journey into the desert, and sat under a broom·tree, and ‘ It is enough now, EvEa—1.1v1No; take fathers.·Then he lay down and slept under the broom—tree, and saw there a messenger touching him, and Arise and eat! When he looked, he saw at his head baked cakes and a cruse of water, and he ate and drank, and rested, and slept. The Messenger of the EvER—1.1v-

ING, however, returned a second time and touched him and said, ‘Arise, and eat! for the journey is too much for you} So he arose and ate and drank,

and travelled upon that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of the EVER-1.1v1Nc;, and went into a cave there, and lodged in it, when the message of the Evan-uvmc came to him and What do you here, Eliah? I have·been very 3 Gs) IO