1 Kings 18:10 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 18:10

As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

As Jehovah thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

KJV

As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

There is no nation or kingdom - He had sent through all his own states and to the neighboring governments to find out the prophet, as he knew, from his own declaration, that both rain and drought were to be the effect of his prayers. Had he found him, he no doubt intended to oblige him to procure rain, or punish him for having brought on this drought.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חַ֣י׀	chai	[by] [the] life	H2416 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	of Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ	'e.lo.Hei.kha	God your	H430 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
יֶשׁ־	yesh-	there	H3426 →
גּ֤וֹי	Goy	[is] a nation	H1471 →
וּמַמְלָכָה֙	u.mam.la.Khah	and a kingdom	H4467 →
אֲ֠שֶׁר	'a.Sher	where	H834 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
שָׁלַ֨ח	sha.Lach	he has sent	H7971 →
אֲדֹנִ֥י	'a.do.Ni	master my	H113 →
שָׁם֙	sham	there	H8033 →
לְבַקֶּשְׁךָ֔	le.va.kesh.Cha	to seek you	H1245 →
וְאָמְר֖וּ	ve.'a.me.Ru	and they said	H559 →
אָ֑יִן	'A.yin	not	H369 →
וְהִשְׁבִּ֤יעַ	ve.hish.Bi.a'	and he made swear	H7650 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַמַּמְלָכָה֙	ha.mam.la.Khah	the kingdom	H4467 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הַגּ֔וֹי	ha.Goy	the nation	H1471 →
כִּ֖י	ki	that	H3588 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יִמְצָאֶֽכָּה׃	yim.tza.'E.kah	it has found you	H4672 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 31:20
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
leads to
- Psalms 27:5
  For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
- Psalms 32:7
  You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
- Psalms 91:1–4
  He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Job 5:21
  You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.
Through
1 Kings 17:1
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…
leads to
- Luke 4:25–26
  But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all…
- James 5:17
  Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Through
Psalms 10:2
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
leads to
- Psalms 59:12
  By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
- Psalms 36:11
  Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.