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1 Kings 19:1

in 1 Kings 19

Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

KJV

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

This verse in 1 Kings 19

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

His heart was set upon them, and he aggravated the slaying of them as Elijah's crime, without taking notice that it was a just reprisal upon Jezebel for killing God's prophets, ch. xviii.

This site's exposition

all that Elijah had done

on 1 Kings 19:1-2

Ahab reports Carmel accurately and draws no conclusion from it: the king who watched fire fall and heard all Israel confess the Lord he is the God tells his wife only that the prophets are dead. Jezebel answers with an oath sworn by her own gods, promising Elijah's life within a day. The victory of chapter eighteen survives one king's silence and does not survive one queen's threat.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Ahab told Jezebel - Probably with no evil design against Elijah.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַיַּגֵּ֤דand he told

    vaiyagedH5046370 times

  • אַחְאָב֙Ahab

    ʾachavH25692 times

  • לְאִיזֶ֔בֶלto Jezebel

    leizevelH34822 times

  • אֵ֛ת<obj.>

    ʾetH85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רthat

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • עָשָׂ֖הhe had done

    ʾasahH62132628 times

  • אֵלִיָּ֑הוּElijah

    ʾeliyahuH45271 times

  • וְאֵ֨תand <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רthat

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • הָרַ֛גhe had killed

    haragH2026167 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הַנְּבִיאִ֖יםthe prophets

    haneviimH5030314 times

  • בֶּחָֽרֶב׃with the sword

    becharevH2719413 times

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

The walk

8 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 21:25

    (Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 22:14

      The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

    • 1 Kings 21:20

      When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of…

    • 1 Kings 16:30–33

      However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.

  • Through

    1 Kings 16:31

    And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 17:16

      They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served…

    • 2 Kings 10:18

      Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.

  • Through

    1 Kings 18:40

    Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.

    it leads to

    • Judges 4:7

      And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’”

    • Deuteronomy 18:20

      But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put…

    • Deuteronomy 13:5

      Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.