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1 Kings 18:11

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And now you say, ‘Go tell your master that Elijah is here!’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

KJV

And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

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This verse in 1 Kings 18

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Art thou that my lord Elijah

on 1 Kings 18:7-14

Obadiah's long protest is the chapter's measure of Elijah's reputation: no nation or kingdom where Ahab has not sought him, oaths taken from kings that he was not there, and the standing assumption that the Spirit of the LORD carries the prophet where no messenger can follow. A man who has spent three years hiding prophets by fifty is still afraid that this errand will cost his head. The fear is reasonable, and the text lets it speak at full length before Elijah answers it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

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.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

That they did not find you. For the nation was unable to find you. 2 Below v.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Kings 18:10:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וְעַתָּ֖הand now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • אַתָּ֣הyou

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • אֹמֵ֑ר[are] saying

    ʾomerH559 →5305 times

  • לֵ֛ךְgo

    lekhH1980 →1546 times

  • אֱמֹ֥רsay

    ʾemorH559 →5305 times

  • לַאדֹנֶ֖יךָto master<s> your

    ladoneikhaH113 →333 times

  • הִנֵּ֥הhere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • אֵלִיָּֽהוּ׃Elijah

    ʾeliyahuH452 →71 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

4 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

    1 Kings 18:8

    “It is I,” he answered. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here!’”

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 18:3

      and Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Now Obadiah greatly feared the LORD,

    • 1 Peter 2:17–18

      Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

    • Romans 13:7

      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 18:14

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

    it leads to

    • 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.

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) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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