1 Kings 18:42
Good News Translation
While Ahab went to eat, Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel, where he bowed down to the ground, with his head between his knees.

New Revised Standard Version
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; there he bowed himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees.

Contemporary English Version
Ahab left, but Elijah climbed back to the top of Mount Carmel. Then he stooped down with his face almost to the ground

New American Bible
So Ahab went up to eat and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, crouched down to the earth, and put his head between his knees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between his knees,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between his knees,

Elijah

1 Kings 18:19 Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.

Matthew 14:23 And having dismissed the multitude, he went into a mountain alone to pray. And when it was evening, he was there alone.

Luke 6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.

Acts 10:9 And on the next day, whilst they were going on their journey and drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up to the higher parts of the house to pray, about the sixth hour.

he cast himself

Genesis 24:52 Which when Abraham's servant heard, falling down to the ground, he adored the Lord.

Joshua 7:6 But Joshua rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground, before the ark of the Lord, until the evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.

2 Samuel 12:16 And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.

Daniel 9:3 And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Mark 14:35 And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the ground: and he prayed that, if it might be, the hour might pass from him.

James 5:16-18 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much. . . .

put his face

1 Kings 19:13 And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and coming forth, stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered:

Ezra 9:6 And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,

Psalm 89:7 God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.

Isaiah 6:2 Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew.

Isaiah 38:2 And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,

Daniel 9:7 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee.

Context
The LORD Sends Rain
41And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain. 42Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between his knees,43And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times.…
Cross References
James 5:18
And he prayed again. And the heaven gave rain: and the earth brought forth her fruit.

1 Kings 18:19
Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.

1 Kings 18:20
Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together the prophets unto mount Carmel.

1 Kings 18:41
And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

1 Kings 18:43
And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times.

Jeremiah 46:18
As I live, saith the King, (whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

1 Kings 18:41
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