- 1 Rois 18
  
  1 It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."
  
  2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
  
  3 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly:
  
  4 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
  
  5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals."
  
  6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
  
  7 As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?"
  
  8 He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here!'"
  
  9 He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
  
  10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, 'He is not here,' he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.
  
  11 Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'
  
  12 It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
  
  13 Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
  
  14 Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here";' and he will kill me."
  
  15 Elijah said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."
  
  16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
  
  17 It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?"
  
  18 He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals.
  
  19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."
  
  20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.
  
  21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.
  
  22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.
  
  23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.
  
  24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh. The God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "It is well said."
  
  25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
  
  26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
  
  27 It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened."
  
  28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
  
  29 It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the offering; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded.
  
  30 Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me"; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that was thrown down.
  
  31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, "Israel shall be your name."
  
  32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed.
  
  33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood."
  
  34 He said, "Do it a second time"; and they did it the second time. He said, "Do it a third time"; and they did it the third time.
  
  35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.
  
  36 It happened at the time of the offering of the offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
  
  37 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again."
  
  38 Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
  
  39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, "Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!"
  
  40 Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
  
  41 Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain."
  
  42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
  
  43 He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." He went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing." He said, "Go again" seven times.
  
  44 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, 'Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn't stop you.'"
  
  45 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
  
  46 The hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
  
  Ezéchiel 48
  
  1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].
  
  2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].
  
  3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].
  
  4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].
  
  5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].
  
  6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].
  
  7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].
  
  8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.
  
  9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
  
  10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.
  
  11 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
  
  12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
  
  13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  
  14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
  
  15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.
  
  16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
  
  17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.
  
  18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.
  
  19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
  
  20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.
  
  21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.
  
  22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.
  
  23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].
  
  24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].
  
  25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].
  
  26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].
  
  27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].
  
  28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.
  
  29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.
  
  30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;
  
  31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
  
  32 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
  
  33 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
  
  34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
  
  35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.
  
  1 Thessaloniciens 1
  
  1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  
  2 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
  
  3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
  
  4 We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,
  
  5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
  
  6 You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
  
  7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
  
  8 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.
  
  9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
  
  10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

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