It was many days [later], and there was a word of Adonoy to Eliyahu in the third year, [of the drought] saying, “Go appear to Achov, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”

And Eliyohu went to appear to Achov, and the famine was severe in Shomron.

Achov called to Ovadyahu who was in charge of the household. Ovadyahu had great fear of Adonoy.

And when Ezevel killed the prophets of Adonoy, Ovadyohu took one hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men in a cave, and sustained them with bread and water.

And Achov said to Ovadyahu, “Go through the land to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks; perhaps we will find [some] grass and keep [some] horse[s] and mule[s] alive, and we will not be bereft of [our] animals.”

They divided the land between them to pass through it. Achov went on one way, alone, and Ovadyahu went on one way, alone.

As Ovadyahu was on the way, behold, Eliyahu was coming toward him. he [Ovadyahu] recognized him and fell on his face, and he said, “Is that you, my master Eliyahu?”

And he said to him, “It is I. Go tell your master, ‘Here is Eliyahu.’”

And [Ovadyahu] said, “What have I sinned that you put your servant into the hands of Achov to kill me.

As Adonoy, your God lives, there is not a nation or a kingdom to which my master has not sent to search for you, and they have said, ‘He is not here.’ and he made the kingdoms and the nations swear that they did not find you.

And now you say [to me] ‘Go say to your master ‘Here is Eliyohu.’

And it will be that when I leave you, a wind from Adonoy will carry you away to where I do not know. Then I will come to tell Achov and he will not find you and he will kill me; and your servant feared Adonoy since my youth.

It has been surely told to my master what I did when Ezevel killed the prophets of Adonoy. I hid one hundred of the prophets of Adonoy, fifty men in a cave, and I sustained them with bread and water.

And now you say to me, ‘Go tell your master, “Here is Eliyohu.’” He will [certainly] kill me.”

And Eliyohu said, “As Adonoy of Hosts lives, before whom I have stood [served]; today, I will appear to him.”

And Ovadyahu went to meet Achov and told him [about Eliyhu’s whereabouts]. Achov went to meet Eliyahu.

And when Achov saw Eliyahu, Achov said to him; “Is this you, trouble maker of Yisroel?”

And he said, “I did not trouble Yisroel; but you and the house of your father; when you abandoned the mitzvos of Adonoy, and followed after the Baalim.

Now, send [and] gather to me all of Yisroel to Mount Carmel, and [also] the prophets of Baal, four hundred and fifty [of them], And the prophets of the Asheirah, the four hundred, who dine at the table of Ezevel.

And Achov sent [messengers] among all the Bnei Yisroel, and gathered the prophets to Mount Carmel.

Eliyahu approached all the people, and said “How long will you be jumping between two concepts? If Adonoy is God, follow Him, and if it is the Baal, follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.

And Eliyahu said to the people, “I alone have remained as a prophet of Adonoy; and the prophets of the Baal total four four hundred and fifty men.

Have them give us two oxen and let them choose the one ox, and cut it up and place it on the wood without fire. And I will prepare the one ox, and place it on the wood, without fire.

Then call out in the name of your god, and I will call in the Name of Adonoy, and the God Who responds with fire, He is God.” And all the people answered and said, “The thing is good.”

And Eliyahu said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves the one ox, and prepare it first, for you are the majority. Call out in the name of your god, but do not put fire [on the wood]”

And they took the ox that he gave them. They prepared it and called out in the name of Baal from morning till noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us,” but there was no voice and no answer; and they jumped on the altar that he had made.

It was at noontime and Eliyahu ridiculed them and said, “Call with a loud voice, for he is a god, perhaps he is conversing, or pursuing, or is traveling. Perhaps he is sleeping and he will awaken.”

So they called out with a loud voice, and they gashed themselves as was their custom with swords and spears until blood was pouring on them.

So it was when noon had passed, they coninued to prophesy until the time of bringing the afternoon sacrifice; but there was no voice and no answer, and no one was listening.

And Eliyohu said to all the people, “Come near to me,” and all the people came near to him; and he repaired the Altar of Adonoy that had been broken down.

And Eliyohu took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes of the sons of Yaakov; to whom the word of Adonoy had come, saying, “Yisroel will be your name.”

He built the stones into an Altar in the Name of Adonoy. He made a ditch the size of which would contain two se’ah of seed, around the Altar.

He arranged the wood and he cut up the ox and placed it on the wood.

And he said, “Fill four pitchers with water, and pour them on the burnt offering and the wood.” And he said, “Repeat it” and they repeated it. And he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time.

The water went around the Altar, and even the ditch, he filled with water.

And as it was time to offer the afternoon sacrifice, Eliyahu, the prophet, prayed and said, “Adonoy, God of Avrohom, Yitzchok and Yisroel, let it be known today that You are God in Yisroel, and that I am Your servant; and at Your word have I done all these things.

Answer me Adonoy, answer me, and this people will know that You, Adonoy, are God; and You have turned their hearts away.”

And the fire of Adonoy came down and consumed the burnt offering and the wood, the stones and the earth, and the water in the ditch, it licked up.

And all the people saw and they fell on their faces; and they said, “Adonoy, He is God; Adonoy, He is God.”

And Eliyohu said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal, let not one of them escape,” and they seized them. Eliyohu took them down to the Valley of Kishon and slaughtered them there.

Then Eliyohu said to Achov, “Go up, eat and drink, because there is sound of a drenching rain.”

And Achov went up to eat and drink, while Eliyahu went up to the top of Carmel. He bowed to the ground, and put his face between his knees.

And he said to his servant, “Please go up, look out to the sea.” He went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing, and he said, “Go back,” seven times.

On the seventh time, he [the servant] said, “Behold, there is a small cloud the size of a man’s hand, rising from the sea.” He [Eliyahu] said, “Go up, say to Achov, ‘Harness your [horses to the carriage] and go down, lest the rain stop you.’”

In the meantime, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. Achov rode and traveled to Yizreil.

And the hand [the spirit] of Adonoy was with Eliyahu, and he girded his loins and ran before Achov arrived in Yizreil.