1 Kings 18:17
Good News Translation
When Ahab saw him, he said, "So there you are--the worst troublemaker in Israel!"

New Revised Standard Version
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”

Contemporary English Version
and when he saw him, Ahab shouted, "There you are, the biggest troublemaker in Israel!"

New American Bible
When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it you, you disturber of Israel?”

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?

he that troubleth Israel

1 Kings 21:20 And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

Joshua 7:25 Where Joshua said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire.

Jeremiah 26:8,9 And when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, and the prophets, and all the people laid hold on him, saying: Let him be put to death. . . .

Jeremiah 38:4 And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this people, but evil.

Amos 7:10 And the high places of the idol shall be thrown down, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste: and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

Acts 16:20 And presenting them to the magistrates, they said: These men disturb our city, being Jews:

Acts 17:6 And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying: They that set the city in an uproar are come hither also:

Acts 24:5 We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions among all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Context
Elijah on Mount Carmel
16Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came to meet Elias. 17And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?18And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Baalim.…
Cross References
Joshua 7:25
Where Joshua said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire.

1 Kings 18:16
Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came to meet Elias.

1 Kings 21:20
And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

Jeremiah 38:4
And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this people, but evil.

1 Kings 18:16
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