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the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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English Standard Version

1 Kings 18:11

And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Doubting;   Elijah;   Obadiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Carmel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Obadiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Zeal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hara;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Obadiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Carmel;   Elijah;   Haggai;   Obadiah;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - James and John, the Sons of Zebedee;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Obadiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount carmel;   Obadiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elijah;   Jezebel;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Obadi'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Obadiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Now you say, ‘Go tell your lord, “Elijah is here!”’
Hebrew Names Version
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah [is here].
King James Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
New Century Version
Now you want me to go to my master and tell him, ‘Elijah is here'?
New English Translation
Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, "Elijah is back."'
Amplified Bible
"And now you are saying, 'Go, tell your master, "Behold, Elijah [is here]."'
New American Standard Bible
"Yet now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here!"'
Geneva Bible (1587)
And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lorde, Beholde, Eliiah is here.
Legacy Standard Bible
And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here."'
Contemporary English Version
Do you really want me to tell him you're here?
Complete Jewish Bible
Now you say, ‘Go tell your master, "Eliyahu is here."'
Darby Translation
And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah!
Easy-to-Read Version
Now you want me to go and tell him that you are here!
George Lamsa Translation
And now you say to me, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
Good News Translation
And now you want me to go and tell him that you are here?
Lexham English Bible
Now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your lord: "Elijah is here."'
Literal Translation
And now, you are saying, Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And now thou sayest: Go tell yi LORDE: beholde, Elias is here.
American Standard Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
Bible in Basic English
And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And now thou sayest, Go, and tell thy lorde that Elias is here.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here.
King James Version (1611)
And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliu is here.
English Revised Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
Berean Standard Bible
And now you say, 'Go tell your master that Elijah is here!'
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Go, and seie to thi lord, Elie is present.
Young's Literal Translation
and now, thou art saying, Go, say to thy lord, Lo, Elijah;
Update Bible Version
And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Look, Elijah [is here].
Webster's Bible Translation
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
World English Bible
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
New King James Version
And now you say, "Go, tell your master, "Elijah is here"'!
New Living Translation
And now you say, ‘Go and tell your master, "Elijah is here."'
New Life Bible
Now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your owner, "See, Elijah is here." ‘
New Revised Standard
But now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord that Elijah is here.'
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, now, thou, art saying, - Go say to thy lord, Here, is, Elijah;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here.
Revised Standard Version
And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here."'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

Contextual Overview

1 After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth." 2 So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. 3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, 4 and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord , Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) 5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals." 6 So they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself. 7 And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. And Obadiah recognized him and fell on his face and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?" 8 And he answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here.'" 9 And he said, "How have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? 10 As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, ‘He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Go: tell they lord, 1 Kings 18:8, 1 Kings 18:14

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:34 - whom he named Israel

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
Genesis 17:24
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?"
Genesis 18:18
seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 18:21
I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know."
Genesis 31:35
And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household gods.
Leviticus 15:19
"When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Luke 1:7
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.
Luke 1:18
And Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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