◄ 1 Kings 18:13 ►
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Good News Translation
Haven't you heard that when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD I hid a hundred of them in caves, in two groups of fifty, and supplied them with food and water?

New Revised Standard Version
Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred of the LORD’s prophets fifty to a cave, and provided them with bread and water?

Contemporary English Version
I even hid 100 of the LORD's prophets in caves when Jezebel was trying to kill them. I also gave them food and water.

New American Bible
Have you not been told, my lord, what I did when Jezebel was murdering the prophets of the LORD—that I hid a hundred of the prophets of the LORD, fifty each in caves, and supplied them with food and water?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?

what I did

1 Kings 18:4 For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.

Genesis 20:4,5 Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just? . . .

Psalm 18:21-24 Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God. . . .

Acts 20:34 You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.

1 Thessalonians 2:9,10 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God. . . .

I hid an hundred

Matthew 10:41,42 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. . . .

fed them

Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:

Context
Elijah Confronts Ahab
…12And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy. 13Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?14And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:38
Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.

1 Kings 18:4
For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.

1 Kings 18:14
And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.

2 Kings 6:32
But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with him. So he sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the ancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off my head? Look then when the messenger shall come, shut the door, and suffer him not to come in: for behold the sound of his master's feet is behind him.

1 Kings 18:12
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