English Standard Version

1 Kings 18:13-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

13. Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?

14. And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; and he will kill me.”

15. And Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”

16. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.

17. When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”

18. And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.

19. Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

20. So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.