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1 Kings · read by E.A. Johnston
75 verses, in order. Only the verses E.A. read aloud are shown.
1 Kings 3
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So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days."Read from NKJV · Bible Survey 1 Sam - 2 Chron
1 Kings 8
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then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.Read from KJV · O Lord Heal Our Land
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When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,Read from KJV · O Lord Heal Our Land
1 Kings 10
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But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told to me. Your wisdom and prosperity have far exceeded the report I heard.Read from KJV · A Time for Eternity
1 Kings 11
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For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.Read from KJV · A Backslider Described
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Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.Read from KJV · God is Looking for a Man
1 Kings 13
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Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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"Which way did he go?" their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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So the prophet said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted itRead from KJV · Alas My Brother
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and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" "I am," he replied.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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So the prophet said to the man of God, "Come home with me and eat some bread."Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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But the man replied, "I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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For I have been told by the word of the LORD: 'You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.'"Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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Then the prophet replied, "I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.'" The old prophet was lying to him,Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.'"Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, "It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him."Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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Then the old prophet instructed his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled it,Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.Read from KJV · Alas My Brother
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Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, "Oh, my brother!"Read from ESV · Alas My Brother
1 Kings 16
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However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.Read from KJV · Realities of Revival Personal Corporate National
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And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.Read from KJV · A Nation Gone to the Devil
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Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.Read from KJV · A Nation Gone to the Devil
1 Kings 17
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Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!"Read from KJV · The Hidden Life of Prayer
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"Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.Read from KJV · The Hidden Life of Prayer
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And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."Read from KJV · The Missing Voice of Authority
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So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.Read from KJV · The Hidden Life of Prayer
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The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.Read from KJV · God Can Make Kingdoms Tremble
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Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.Read from KJV · God Can Make Kingdoms Tremble
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"Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you."Read from KJV · Does God Still Work Miracles
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So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink."Read from KJV · Does God Still Work Miracles
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And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread."Read from KJV · The Missing Voice of Authority
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But she replied, "As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die."Read from KJV · Does God Still Work Miracles
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"Do not be afraid," Elijah said to her. "Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,Read from KJV · The Missing Voice of Authority
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for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.'"Read from KJV · The Missing Voice of Authority
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So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.Read from KJV · The Missing Voice of Authority
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The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.Read from KJV · The Missing Voice of Authority
1 Kings 18
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When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is that you, O troubler of Israel?"Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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"I have not troubled Israel," Elijah replied, "but you and your father's house have, for you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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Now summon all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table."Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel.Read from KJV · Lock Stock and Barrel
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Then Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him." But the people did not answer a word.Read from KJV · Repentance Pulling Out Sin Roots and All
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Then Elijah said to the people, "I am the only remaining prophet of the LORD, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets.Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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Then you may call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The God who answers by fire, He is God." And all the people answered, "What you say is good."Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire."Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, "Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!"Read from KJV · Is Your Altar Broken
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So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.Read from KJV · Is Your Altar Broken
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Midday passed, and they kept on raving until the time of the evening sacrifice. But there was no response; no one answered, no one paid attention.Read from KJV · A Worked Up Religion
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Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me." So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.Read from KJV · God Can Make Kingdoms Tremble
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And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, "Israel shall be your name."Read from KJV · Revival an Abundance of Rain
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And with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.Read from KJV · God Can Make Kingdoms Tremble
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Next, he arranged the wood, cut up the bull, placed it on the wood,Read from KJV · Revival an Abundance of Rain
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and said, "Fill four waterpots and pour the water on the offering and on the wood." "Do it a second time," he said, and they did it a second time. "Do it a third time," he said, and they did it a third time.Read from KJV · God Can Make Kingdoms Tremble
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So the water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.Read from KJV · God Can Make Kingdoms Tremble
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At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command.Read from KJV · God Can Make Kingdoms Tremble
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Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again."Read from KJV · Send the Fire
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Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.Read from KJV · God Can Make Kingdoms Tremble
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When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, "The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!"Read from NASB1995 · America Needs Revival
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Then Elijah ordered them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape." So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.Read from KJV · America Needs Revival
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And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain."Read from KJV · Revival an Abundance of Rain
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"Go and look toward the sea," he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, "There is nothing there." Seven times Elijah said, "Go back."Read from KJV · America Too Proud to Kneel
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On the seventh time the servant reported, "There is a cloud as small as a man's hand rising from the sea." And Elijah replied, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.'"Read from KJV · America Too Proud to Kneel
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Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.Read from KJV · America Too Proud to Kneel
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And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.Read from KJV · America Too Proud to Kneel
1 Kings 22
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But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here of whom we can inquire?"Read from KJV · Lying Spirit Spit in Your Face