 I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away.  Manual of Bible history. Gradation 1-3 - Page 162by Charles Baker - 1856Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...progress. You remember Elijah fleeing into the wilderness, and there crying from his cavern to his God, " The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, I only, am left, and they seek my life to take it away." But what saith the answer of God to him ?... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1831 - 242 pages
...but that, with them, every worshipper too had perished, he uttered that piercing complaint, 'Behold I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life to take it away?' What says the Holy Apostle ? When ' no man stood with him but all forsook him,' did he give up the... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...Ami he said, I have been very jealous foi llie LORD God of hosts: for the children of Is f ;*]•! have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the awnrd ; and I, even 1 only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away. 11 Ami he said, Go forth,... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah ? 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of...am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away. 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by,... | |
 | John (st.) - 1832 - 82 pages
...behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of...only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away."—1 Kings xix 1 —10. * " And there were also Sodomites in the land ; and they did according... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts : because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. THE history of all the saints of old sufficiently proves, that there is no such thing as sinless perfection... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...himself to Elijah ; — ' when the Lord came to him and said, ' what dost thou here Elijah ?' and he said, ' I have been very jealous for the Lord God...the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, and thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and... | |
 | William Wollaston Pym - 1832 - 154 pages
...grace," and upon that remnant, smaller even than in the prophet's time when he mournfully exclaimed, " I even I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away," the gifts were bestowed; and the very bestowal of them was one appointed instrument of increasing the... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...about this time. The children of Israel (said Elijah in the cave of Horeb to the angel of the Lord) 3 «word, and I only am left, and they seek my in- to take it away. 1 Ki. xix. 2. 10. 14. All ib said... | |
 | William Stevens (biographer.) - 1833 - 786 pages
...doest thou here, Elijah ? And he said, 1 have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of Hosts : because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...left, and they seek my life, to take it away. And Jehovah said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus : and when thou cotnest,... | |
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