2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.


In Context

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.)

1 Kings 18:2 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:2So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria,

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:2And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And [there was] a sore famine in Samaria.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:2And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:2And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:2And Elijah went to shew himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:2And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:2And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a grievous famine in Samaria.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:2and Elijah goeth to appear unto Ahab. And the famine is severe in Samaria,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:2And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.