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Elijah (, meaning “My God is Yahweh”) or Elias (, Elías; , Ilya; ; Aramaic Syriac: إيليا, Elyāe; Middle Syriac: , Elyāe; Arabic: إيلياس or إليا, Ilyās or Ilyā) was a prophet and a wonder-worker in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of Ahab (9th century BC), according to the biblical Books of Kings. According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Canaanite god Baal (which was considered as idol worship); he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up “by a whirlwind.“ (This means or mechanism of being taken up by a whirlwind is said plainly in 2 Kings chapter 2, first in verse 1 and then in verse 11, while the chariot and horses separated “the two of them,“ that is, Elijah and... Read on...