 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
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1833 - 304 pages
...you, that the rule and do1 " And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts : because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto him Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed... | |
 | John Sinclair - 1833 - 410 pages
...if it had entirely apostatized and disappeared from the earth. He exclaims in his address to God, " The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...prophets with the sword; and I, even I only am left." We read of Ahab that he gathered his prophets together, about four hundred men, and that there was... | |
 | 1833 - 930 pages
...Syrians are smitten him, Whal doest thou here, Elijah 1 again. 31 The Syrians submitting them10 And he J thycov 3 or, IwiU selves, Ahab sendeth Ben-hadad away with a covenant. 35 Theprophet, under theparableofa... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 598 pages
...Prophet Elijab, who, being asked, when he was in the cave of Beer-sheba, what he did there, answered, " I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts ; for the children of Israel have forsaken tby covenant, and thrown down thine altars." This was St. Paul's jealousy, when he saw the Corinthians... | |
 | Thomas W. Chapman - 1999 - 544 pages
...for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and...only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away" (1 Kings 19:10). It is not uncommon, in conversing with depressed persons, to hear them remonstrate... | |
 | 2002 - 652 pages
...for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and...am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." ' 5 And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive,... | |
 | John Kenneth Riches - 2000 - 394 pages
...to, and indeed, as the story stands, as a corrective to, Elijah's sense of abandonment: 'the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down...prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left' (1 Kings 19:10, 14). God's response to this is to appoint new leaders, including a successor to Elijah,... | |
 | Margaret Ziolkowski - 2000 - 150 pages
...for the Lord, the God of hosts: for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and...I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."46 Elijah is referring to his struggle against paganism, more specifically, against the worship... | |
 | David R. Catchpole, David G. Horrell, C. Christopher Mark Tuckett - 2000 - 446 pages
...by his vindictive wife Herodias. Both women have their knife into the man of God, and Elijah says, "I, even I, only am left; and they seek my life to take it away". Jezebel and her spouse "would" (fioeXov) kill Elijah; it was not until his second life-chapter that... | |
 | Janie Watkins - 2001 - 174 pages
...killed. (I Kgs, 19:14-18), "And he said, I haw Been wry jealous for the Lord God of Hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant,...left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus-, and when thou comest,... | |
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