And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
and now, thou art saying, Go, say to thy lord, Lo, Elijah;
And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah!
1 Kings — From Solomon's glory to the divided kingdom — then Elijah's confrontation with Ahab and Jezebel dominating the second half. The promise of the Davidic covenant unfolding through temple glory, then beginning to unravel as idolatry and political fragmentation take hold.
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 verses this one reaches3
And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”
“It is I,” he answered. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here!’”
To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
The walk4
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
1 Kings 18:8“It is I,” he answered. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here!’”
leads to
and Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Now Obadiah greatly feared the LORD,
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Through
1 Kings 18:14And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”
leads to
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.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Voices2
And now thou sayest, go tell thy lord, behold, Elijah is here. Which, if I should not be able to make good, would be of fatal consequence to me; and that it is plain he feared, by what he next says.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
