1 Kings 18:17
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New International Version (©2011)
When he saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
When Ahab saw him, he exclaimed, "So, is it really you, you troublemaker of Israel?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you destroyer of Israel?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab asked him, "Is it really you, you destroyer of Israel?"

NET Bible (©2006)
When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When he saw Elijah, Ahab said, "Is that you, you troublemaker of Israel?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Are you he that troubles Israel?

American King James Version
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Are you he that troubles Israel?

American Standard Version
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it thou, the troubler of Israel?

English Revised Version
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel?

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

World English Bible
It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?"

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab saith unto him, 'Art thou he -- the troubler of Israel?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:17-20 One may guess how people stand affected to God, by observing how they stand affected to his people and ministers. It has been the lot of the best and most useful men, like Elijah, to be called and counted the troublers of the land. But those who cause God's judgments do the mischief, not he that foretells them, and warns the nation to repent.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him Art thou he [Rather, here: same words as in ver. 7. "Do I at last see thee again? Hast thou ventured into my presence?"] that troubleth Israel? [Heb. thou troubler of Israel. For the word (עָכַר) see Genesis 24:30; Joshua 6:18; Joshua 7:25; Proverbs 11:17; 1 Samuel 14:29. When Rawlinson says that this charge of troubling Israel has "never been before brought against any one but Achan," he apparently forgets the passage last cited. "My father hath troubled the land." Wordsworth paraphrases, "Art thou the Achan of Israel?" but it is very doubtful whether this thought was in Ahab's mind.]

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah,.... As soon as he came up to him, and knew who he was; Abarbinel thinks, because his hair was grown so long that Ahab did not know him certainly, and therefore put the following question:

that Ahab said unto him, art thou he that troubleth Israel? by opposing the religion of Baal, which prevailed among them; but chiefly rain being withheld from them according to his word, and at his prayer.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17, 18. Art thou he that troubleth Israel—A violent altercation took place. Ahab thought to awe him into submission, but the prophet boldly and undisguisedly told the king that the national calamity was traceable chiefly to his own and his family's patronage and practice of idolatry. But, while rebuking the sins, Elijah paid all due respect to the high rank of the offender. He urged the king to convene, by virtue of his royal mandate, a public assembly, in whose presence it might be solemnly decided which was the troubler of Israel. The appeal could not well be resisted, and Ahab, from whatever motives, consented to the proposal. God directed and overruled the issue.

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Elijah on Mount Carmel
16So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Are you he that troubles Israel? 18And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and you have followed Baalim. …

Joshua 7:25 Joshua said, "Why have you brought this trouble on us? The LORD will bring trouble on you today." Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them.
1 Kings 18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
1 Kings 21:20 Ahab said to Elijah, "So you have found me, my enemy!" "I have found you," he answered, "because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD.
Jeremiah 38:4 Then the officials said to the king, "This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin."