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“And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.”— Elijah, 1 Kings 18:44
“While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”— Elijah, 1 Kings 19:4
“And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.”— Elijah, 1 Kings 19:10
“And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have had your altars broken down, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.”— Elijah, 1 Kings 19:14
“And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?”— Elijah, 1 Kings 19:20
“And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord. See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel; And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil. And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage…”— Elijah, 1 Kings 21:20-24
“And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.”— Elijah, 2 Kings 1:10
“And Elijah in answer said, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and put an end to him and his fifty men.”— Elijah, 2 Kings 1:12
“And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.”— Elijah, 2 Kings 1:16
“And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el.”— Elijah, 2 Kings 2:2
“Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on to Jericho.”— Elijah, 2 Kings 2:4
“Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on together.”— Elijah, 2 Kings 2:6
“And when they had come to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, Say what you would have me do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, Be pleased to let a special measure of your spirit be on me.”— Elijah, 2 Kings 2:9
“And he said, You have made a hard request: still, if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get your desire; but if not, it will not be so.”— Elijah, 2 Kings 2:10
“And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing. See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death by the sword.”— Isaiah, 2 Kings 19:6-7
“Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears. This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you. Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel. You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all…”— Isaiah, 2 Kings 19:20-34
“In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.”— Isaiah, 2 Kings 20:1
“Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.”— Isaiah, 2 Kings 20:7
“And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back?”— Isaiah, 2 Kings 20:9
“Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.”— Isaiah, 2 Kings 20:14
“And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see. And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord. Truly, days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone, says the Lord. And your sons, the offspring of your body, they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.”— Isaiah, 2 Kings 20:15-18
“Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 6:5
“And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 6:8
“Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,”— Isaiah, Isaiah 6:11
“And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah. Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,”— Isaiah, Isaiah 7:4-5
“And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?”— Isaiah, Isaiah 7:13
“For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 7:14
“Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 7:15
“For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 7:16
“The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 7:17
“For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people. For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...”— Isaiah, Isaiah 22:4-5
“Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?”— Isaiah, Isaiah 22:16
“See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,”— Isaiah, Isaiah 22:17
“Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house! And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position. And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah: And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah. And I will give the key of the family of David into…”— Isaiah, Isaiah 22:18-25
“From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 24:16
“And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:6
“See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:7
“Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:21
“This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:22
“Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.”— Isaiah, Isaiah 37:23
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