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1 Kings 18:2
2So Elijah went to show 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 was after many days that the word of Adonai came to Elijah in the third year saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; then I will send rain on the land. So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. 3Ahab summoned Obadiah who was the steward of the palace. Now Obadiah feared Adonai greatly— 4for when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of Adonai, Obadiah took 100 prophets, hid them 50 to 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
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Cross-references for 1 Kings 18:2
- Psalms 27:1Of David. Adonai is my light and my salvation: whom should I fear? Adonai is the stronghold of my life: whom should I dread?
- Psalms 51:4Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
- Proverbs 28:1The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
- Isaiah 51:12“I, I am the One who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear man, who dies, or a son of man, who is given up like grass?”
- Hebrews 13:5Keep your lifestyle free from the love of money, and be content with what you have. For God Himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake 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 by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Deuteronomy 28:23Your sky above your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- 2 Kings 6:25Now there was a great famine in Samaria, since they were besieging it, until a donkey’s head was sold for 80 pieces of silver, and the quarter of a kav of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
- Jeremiah 14:2Judah will mourn, and her gates languish. They will bow in black to the ground And Jerusalem’s wail will go up.
- Joel 1:15Ah, the day! The day of Adonai is near! As havoc from Shaddai it will come.
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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