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430 Third Book of Kings

The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise Chapter 18
of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the
Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth. After many days, the word of the Lord came to
Elias, in the third year, saying: Go, and shew
15 She went, and did according to the word of
Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon the
from that day face of the earth.
2 And Elias went to shew himself to Achab,
16 The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise
and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.
of oil was not diminished according to the word
3 And Achab called Abdias the governor of his
of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.
house: now Abdias feared the Lord very much.
17 And it came to pass after this, that the son
4 For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the
of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick,
Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them
and the sickness was very grievous, so that there
by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with
was no breath left in him.
bread and water.
18 And she said to Elias: What have I to do
5 And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land
with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to
unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys,
me, that my iniquities should be remembered,
to see if we can find grass, and save the horses
and that thou shouldst kill my son?
and mules, that the beasts may not utterly per-
11 And Elias said to her: Give me thy son.
ish.
And he took him out of her bosom, and carried
6 And they divided the countries between
him into the upper chamber where he abode, and
them, that they might go round about them:
laid him upon his own bed.
Achab went one way, and Abdias another way
20 And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, by himself.
my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with
7 And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met
whom I am after a sort maintained, so as to kill
him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and
her son?
said: Art thou my lord Elias?
21 And he stretched, and measured himself 8 And he answered: I am. Go, and tell thy
upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, master: Elias is here.
and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of this 9 And he said: What have I sinned, that thou
child, I beseech thee, return into his body. wouldst deliver me, thy servant, into the hand of
22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and Achab, that he should kill me?
the soul of the child returned into him, and he 10 As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no
revived. nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not
23 And Elias took the child, and brought him sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is
down from the upper chamber to the house be- not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and
low, and delivered him to his mother, and said nation, because thou wast not found.
to her: Behold thy son liveth. 11 And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell
24 And the woman said to Elias: Now by this thy master: Elias is here.
I know that thou art a man of God, and the word 12 And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit
of the Lord in thy mouth is true. of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I