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1 Kings 18:14

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And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.

KJV

And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

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This verse in 1 Kings 18

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Is it you, my lord Elijah

on 1 Kings 18:7-14

Obadiah's long protest measures Elijah's standing, since Ahab has searched every “nation or kingdom” and made each swear “that they had not found you”. He fears that “the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off”, leaving him to face the king alone. The text gives his fear six verses.

This site's exposition

He will kill me

Obadiah ends where he began at verse 9, with his own death. Three times he names Ahab as the one who will kill him. Matthew Henry reads Obadiah as a man faithful to God and to his king, and Elijah answers the fear with an oath in verse 15.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And now thou sayest, go tell my lord, behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me. That is, should he carry such a message to him, and Elijah should be removed elsewhere, and not to be found.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Art thou he that troubleth Israel--A violent altercation took place. Ahab thought to awe him into submission, but the prophet boldly and undisguisedly told the king that the national calamity was traceable chiefly to his own and his family's patronage and practice of idolatry. But, while rebuking the sins, Elijah paid all due respect to the high rank of the offender.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעַתָּה֙and now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • אַתָּ֣הyou

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • אֹמֵ֔ר[are] saying

    ʾomerH559 →5305 times

  • לֵ֛ךְgo

    lekhH1980 →1546 times

  • אֱמֹ֥רsay

    ʾemorH559 →5305 times

  • לַֽאדֹנֶ֖יךָto master<s> your

    ladoneikhaH113 →333 times

  • הִנֵּ֣הhere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • אֵלִיָּ֑הוּElijah

    ʾeliyahuH452 →71 times

  • וַהֲרָגָֽנִי׃ סand he will kill me

    vaharaganiH2026 →167 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 10:28

    Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

    it leads to

    • Luke 12:4–5

      I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.

    • Isaiah 8:12–13

      “Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.

    • Revelation 2:10

      Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful…

    • James 4:12

      There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

    • Ecclesiastes 8:12–13

      Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Prophets of Baal Are Slaughtered — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophets of Baal Are Slaughtered — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 18 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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