1 Kings 19:9 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 19:9

There Elijah entered a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of Jehovah came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

KJV

And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

A cave - Rather, “the cave.” Some well-known cave must be intended - perhaps the “cliff of the rock” Exo 33:22. The traditional “cave of Elijah” which is shown in the secluded plain immediately below the highest summit of the Jebel Mousa, cannot, from its small size, be the real cavern.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹא־	vai.ya.vo'-	and he went	H935 →
שָׁ֥ם	sham	there	H8033 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
הַמְּעָרָ֖ה	ha.me.'a.Rah	the cave	H4631 →
וַיָּ֣לֶן	vai.Ya.len	and he spent [the] night	H3885 →
שָׁ֑ם	Sham	there	H8033 →
וְהִנֵּ֤ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
דְבַר־	de.var-	[the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֵלָ֔יו	'e.Lav	[was] to him	H413 →
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
ל֔וֹ	lo	to him
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
לְּךָ֥	le.Kha	[is] to you
פֹ֖ה	foh	here	H6311 →
אֵלִיָּֽהוּ׃	'e.li.Ya.hu	O Elijah	H452 →

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
Genesis 3:9
But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
leads to
- Genesis 4:9
  And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
- Genesis 16:8
  “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 18:20–21
  Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
- Revelation 20:12–13
  And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their…
- Joshua 7:17–19
  He had the clans of Judah come forward, and the clan of the Zerahites was selected. He had the clan of the Zerahites come forward, and the family of Zabdi was selected.
Through
Genesis 16:8
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
leads to
- Genesis 3:9
  But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
- Genesis 4:10
  “What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
- Jeremiah 2:17–18
  Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?