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Hear me, ADONAI, hear me, so that this people may know that you, ADONAI, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back to you.”

Then, when it came time for offering the evening offering, Eliyahu the prophet approached and said, “ADONAI, God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Isra’el, let it be known today that you are God in Isra’el, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

Eliyahu stepped forward before all the people and said, “How long are you going to jump back and forth between two positions? If ADONAI is God, follow him; but if it’s Ba‘al, follow him!” The people answered him not a word.

Then the fire of ADONAI fell. It consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones and the dust; and it licked up the water in the trench.

When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “ADONAI is God! ADONAI is God!”

The seventh time, the servant said, “Now there’s a cloud coming up out of the sea, no bigger than a man’s hand.” Eliyahu said, “Go up, and say to Ach’av, ‘Prepare your chariot, and get down the mountain before the rain stops you!”

The hand of ADONAI was on Eliyahu; he tucked up his clothing and ran ahead of Ach’av to the entrance of Yizre‘el.

Then Eliyahu said to Ach’av, “Get up, eat, and drink, because I hear the sound of heavy rain.”

“Now,” he said to his servant, “go up, and look out toward the sea.” He went up, looked, and said, “There’s nothing there.” Seven times he said, “Go again.”

Then Eliyahu said to all the people, “Come here to me.” All the people came up to him, as he set about repairing the altar of ADONAI that had been broken down.

Then, you, call on the name of your god; and I will call on the name of ADONAI; and the God who answers with fire, let him be God!” All the people answered, “Good idea! Agreed!”

Eliyahu took twelve stones, in keeping with the number of tribes of the sons of Ya‘akov, to whom the word of ADONAI had come, saying, “Your name is to be Isra’el.”

Around noon Eliyahu began ridiculing them: “Shout louder! After all, he’s a god, isn’t he? Maybe he’s daydreaming, or he’s on the potty, or he’s away on a trip. Maybe he’s asleep, and you have to wake him up.”

With the stones he built an altar in the name of ADONAI. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough for half a bushel of grain.