New American Standard Bible 2020
1 Kings 18:2
2So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
1 Kings 18:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
- New International Version (NIV)So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria,
- English Standard Version (ESV)So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria.
Context of 1 Kings 18:2
1Now it happened after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will provide rain on the face of the earth.” So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. 3Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly; 4for when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)
Read all of 1 Kings 181 Kings 18:2 word by word
וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֵֽלִיָּ֔הוּ לְהֵרָא֖וֹת אֶל־אַחְאָ֑ב וְהָרָעָ֖ב חָזָ֥ק בְּשֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Kings 18:2
- Psalms 27:1The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom should I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom should I dread?
- Psalms 51:4Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.
- Proverbs 28:1The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion.
- Isaiah 51:12“I, I Myself, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you are afraid of mortal man, And of a son of man who is made like grass,
- Hebrews 13:5Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever abandon you,”
- Leviticus 26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.
- Deuteronomy 28:23The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.
- 2 Kings 6:25So there was a severe famine in Samaria; and behold, they kept besieging it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
- Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns And her gates languish; Her people sit on the ground in mourning garments, And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.
- Joel 1:15Woe for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Commentaries on 1 Kings 18:2
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Elijah kept following the Lord's commands (see 1 Kings 17:5, 10), even though it was risky to meet Ahab.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. Elijah went--a marvellous proof of the natural intrepidity of this prophet, of his moral courage, and his unfaltering confidence in the protecting care of God, that he ventured to approach the presence of the raging lion. there was a sore famine in Samaria--Elijah found that the famine was pressing with intense severity in the capital. Corn must have been obtained for the people from Egypt or the adjoining countries, else life could not have been…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Kings 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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