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Title:
"Mox Ruit E Caelo Thesbitae in Vota
Vocatus Ignis, Et in Furuas Cadit Hostia Victa
Faulillas"
Copper etching by Martin van
Heemskerck (* 1498 in Heemskerk; + 1574 in Haarlem; actually
Martin van Veen, (Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van
Veen).
Signed: Meemskerck. Dated
1567
Condition of print: The etching
is on typically thick 16th century hand-made paper.
Impression is clear and strong.
There is a little soiling and
spotting in margins. And there are some minor traces of age
and use, as are usual and frequent with prints some 450
years old (however mainly in margins and verso (on
backside.SOME CREASING IN LOWER AREA.
Image size: 20,1 x 24,6 cm (7.9
x 9.7"). Sheet size: 22,8 x 27,1 cm (ca. 9 x 10.7").
Margins to plate mark are ca.1
cm.
Price: $ 180.00
Order Nr. OLDMASTER
235058
Here is the complete Holy Bible
text for 1 Kings, 18, 1 - 40, explaining the background
understanding for this Old Master Print.
Elijah and Obadiah
1 After a long time, in the
third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: "Go and
present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land."
2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
Now the famine was severe
in Samaria, 3 and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, who was in
charge of his palace. (Obadiah was a devout believer in the
LORD. 4 While Jezebel was killing off the LORD's prophets,
Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two
caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and
water.) 5 Ahab had said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to
all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grass to
keep the horses and mules alive so we will not have to kill
any of our animals." 6 So they divided the land they were to
cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in
another.
7 As Obadiah was walking along,
Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the
ground, and said, "Is it really you, my lord Elijah?"
8 "Yes," he replied. "Go tell
your master, 'Elijah is here.' "
9 "What have I done wrong,"
asked Obadiah, "that you are handing your servant over to
Ahab to be put to death? 10 As surely as the LORD your God
lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has
not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or
kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they
could not find you. 11 But now you tell me to go to my
master and say, 'Elijah is here.' 12 I don't know where the
Spirit of the LORD may carry you when I leave you. If I go
and tell Ahab and he doesn't find you, he will kill me. Yet
I your servant have worshiped the LORD since my youth. 13
Haven't you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was
killing the prophets of the LORD ? I hid a hundred of the
LORD's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied
them with food and water. 14 And now you tell me to go to my
master and say, 'Elijah is here.' He will kill me!"
15 Elijah said, "As the LORD
Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present myself
to Ahab today."
Elijah on Mount Carmel
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab
and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw
Elijah, he said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of
Israel?"
18 "I have not made trouble for
Israel," Elijah replied. "But you and your father's family
have. You have abandoned the LORD's commands and have
followed the Baals. 19 Now summon the people from all over
Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four
hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred
prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."
20 So Ahab sent word throughout
all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 21
Elijah went before 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 said
nothing.
22 Then Elijah said to them, "I
am the only one of the LORD's prophets left, but Baal has
four hundred and fifty prophets. 23 Get two bulls for us.
Let them choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into
pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will
prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set
fire to it. 24 Then you 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."
Then all the people said,
"What you say is good."
25 Elijah said to the prophets
of Baal, "Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first,
since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your
god, but do not light the fire." 26 So they took the bull
given them and prepared it.
Then they called on the
name of Baal from morning till noon. "O Baal, answer us!"
they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered.
And they danced around the altar they had made.
27 At noon Elijah began to
taunt them. "Shout louder!" he said. "Surely he is a god!
Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe
he is sleeping and must be awakened." 28 So they shouted
louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was
their custom, until their blood flowed. 29 Midday passed,
and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time
for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one
answered, no one paid attention.
30 Then Elijah said to all the
people, "Come here to me." They came to him, and he repaired
the altar of the LORD, which was in ruins. 31 Elijah took
twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from
Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Your
name shall be Israel." 32 With the stones he built an altar
in the name of the LORD, and he dug a trench around it large
enough to hold two seahs [a] of seed. 33 He arranged the
wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then
he said to them, "Fill four large jars with water and pour
it on the offering and on the wood."
34 "Do it again," he said, and
they did it again.
"Do it a third time," he
ordered, and they did it the third time. 35 The water ran
down around the altar and even filled the trench.
36 At the time of sacrifice,
the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God
of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you
are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done
all these things at your command. 37 Answer me, O LORD,
answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are
God, and that you are turning their hearts back
again."
38 Then the fire of the LORD
fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and
the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
39 When all the people saw
this, they fell prostrate and cried, "The LORD -he is God!
The LORD -he is God!"
40 Then Elijah commanded them,
"Seize the prophets of Baal. Don't let anyone get away!"
They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the
Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
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