1 Kings 18:12 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 18:12

I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

BSB

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ASV

And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

KJV

And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee - Obadiah supposed that the Spirit of the Lord had carried him to some strange country during the three years and a half of the drought; and as he had reason to think that Ahab would slay Elijah if he found him, and that the God of the prophet would not suffer his servant to fall into such murderous hands, he took for granted that as soon as he should come into danger, so soon would the Spirit of the Lord carry him away, or direct him to some hiding place.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1804: “Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1884)

I SUSPECT that Elijah did not think very much of Obadiah. He does not treat him with any great consideration, but addresses him more sharply than one would expect from a fellow-believer. Elijah was the man of action’bold, always to the front, with nothing to conceal; Obadiah was a quiet believer, true and steadfast, but in a very difficult position, and therefore driven to perform his duty in a less open manner. His faith in the Lord swayed his life, but did not drive him out of the court.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָיָ֞ה	ve.ha.Yah	and it will be	H1961 →
אֲנִ֣י׀	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
אֵלֵ֣ךְ	'e.Lekh	I will go	H1980 →
מֵאִתָּ֗ךְ	me.'i.Takh	from with <the> you	H854 →
וְר֨וּחַ	ve.Ru.ach	and [the] spirit of	H7307 →
יְהוָ֤ה׀	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
יִֽשָּׂאֲךָ֙	yi.sa.'a.Kha	it will carry away you	H5375 →
עַ֚ל	'al	to	H5921 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	where	H834 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
אֵדָ֔ע	'e.Da'	I know	H3045 →
וּבָ֨אתִי	u.Va.ti	and I will go	H935 →
לְהַגִּ֧יד	le.ha.Gid	to tell	H5046 →
לְאַחְאָ֛ב	le.'ach.'Av	to Ahab	H256 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יִֽמְצָאֲךָ֖	yim.tza.'a.Kha	he will find you	H4672 →
וַהֲרָגָ֑נִי	va.ha.ra.Ga.ni	and he will kill me	H2026 →
וְעַבְדְּךָ֛	ve.'av.de.Kha	and servant your	H5650 →
יָרֵ֥א	ya.Re'	[is] fearing	H3373 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
מִנְּעֻרָֽי׃	mi.ne.'u.Rai	since youth<s> my	H5271 →

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
Acts 8:39
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.
leads to
- Ezekiel 8:3
  He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 11:1
  Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Kings 2:16
  “Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put…
- Ezekiel 43:5
  Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
- Ezekiel 3:12–14
  Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: ‘Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!’
Through
2 Kings 2:11
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
leads to
- 2 Kings 6:17
  Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and…
- Psalms 104:3–4
  laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
Through
Ezekiel 8:3
He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:16
  They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.