the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Romans 11:3
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Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!
Lord, they haue killed thy Prophets, and digged downe thine Altars, and I am left alone, and they seeke my life.
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life."
"Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE."
"Lord," he said, "they have killed your prophets, and they have destroyed your altars. I am the only prophet left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."
"Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT [of the prophets], AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE."
"Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE."
"Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life."
"Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well"?
He said, "Lord, they killed your prophets and destroyed your altars. I am the only one left, and now they want to kill me."
" Adonai , they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars, and I'm the only one left, and now they want to kill me too!"
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and *I* have been left alone, and they seek my life.
"Lord, they have killed your prophets and destroyed your altars. I am the only prophet still living, and they are trying to kill me now."
Lord, they haue killed thy Prophets, and digged downe thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seeke my life?
My LORD, they have killed your prophets and have demolished your altars; and I am left alone; and they seek my life.
"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!"
Lord, "they killed Your prophets," "and they dug down Your altars," "and only I am left, and they seek my life." 1 Kg. 19:10
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.
"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
"Lord, they have killed your prophets and demolished your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life."1 Kings 19:10,14">[fn]1 Kings 19:10,14;">[xr]
when he cried unto Aloha against Israel, saying, My Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and thy altars overthrown, and I alone am left, and they seek my soul ?
My Lord, they have slain thy prophets, and have thrown down thy altars; and I am left alone; and they seek my life.
Saying: Lord, they haue kylled thy prophetes, and dygged downe thyne aulters: and I am left alone, and they seke my lyfe.
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
"Lord, they have put Thy Prophets to death, and have overthrown Thy altars; and, now that I alone remain, they are thirsting for my blood"?
Lord, thei han slayn thi prophetis, thei han vndurdoluun thin auteris, and Y am lefte aloone, and thei seken my lijf.
Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have dug down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
"Lord, they have killed your prophets , they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life! "
"Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life"? 1 Kings 19:10, 14">[fn]
" Lord , they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."
He said, "Lord, they have killed Your early preachers. They have destroyed the places where You are worshiped. I am the only one left. They are trying to kill me."
"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life."
Lord! Thy prophets, have they slain, thine altars, have they overthrown, and, I, am left alone, and they are seeking my life!
Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars. And I am left alone: and they seek my life.
"Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thy altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life."
Lorde they have kylled thy prophetes and dygged doune thyn alters: and I am lefte only and they seke my lyfe.
`Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'
LORDE, they haue slayne thy prophetes, & dydged downe thine altares, and I am lefte ouer onely, and they seke my life?
in these words, "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life also."
There was a time not so long ago when you were on the outs with God. But then the Jews slammed the door on him and things opened up for you. Now they are on the outs. But with the door held wide open for you, they have a way back in. In one way or another, God makes sure that we all experience what it means to be outside so that he can personally open the door and welcome us back in. Have you ever come on anything quite like this extravagant generosity of God, this deep, deep wisdom? It's way over our heads. We'll never figure it out. Is there anyone around who can explain God? Anyone smart enough to tell him what to do? Anyone who has done him such a huge favor that God has to ask his advice? Everything comes from him; Everything happens through him; Everything ends up in him. Always glory! Always praise! Yes. Yes. Yes.
"Lord, they've ambushed and killed all of your true followers and torn down your special places. I'm all that's left and I'm being hunted like wolves after a rabbit."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Lord: 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:13, 1 Kings 19:10-18, Nehemiah 9:26, Jeremiah 2:30
digged: 1 Kings 18:30, 1 Kings 18:31
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:22 - I only
Cross-References
They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."
and he said, "Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!
Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."
When Peleg was 30 years old, he had a son, Reu;
The valley was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah tried to run away from the battle, they fell into the pits; but the other three kings escaped to the mountains.
But when she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar to make it watertight. She put the baby in it and then placed it in the tall grass at the edge of the river.
and put its people to work with saws, iron hoes, and iron axes, and forced them to work at making bricks. He did the same to the people of all the other towns of Ammon. Then he and his men returned to Jerusalem.
They encourage each other in their evil plots; they talk about where they will place their traps. "No one can see them," they say.
Suppose they say, "Come on; let's find someone to kill! Let's attack some innocent people for the fun of it!
I decided to enjoy myself and find out what happiness is. But I found that this is useless, too.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lord, they have killed thy prophets,.... By the order of Jezebel, wife of Ahab king of Israel, 1 Kings 18:4. This sin of slaying the prophets of the Lord is charged upon the Jews by Christ,
Matthew 23:31, and by the apostle, 1 Thessalonians 2:15. In the text in
1 Kings 19:14, it is added, "with the sword": which expresses the manner of death they were put to; and this clause is there put after the following, according to a rule of transposition among the Jews;
1 Kings 19:14- :.
And digged down thine altars; either the altars which the patriarchs had formerly built, and were still in being; and though not used, yet were kept and had in great veneration; wherefore the pulling of them down was done in contempt of them, and of the worship of God, which had been formerly performed there; or else such altars, which the religious among the ten tribes built, since the times of Jeroboam, who forbad them to go up to Jerusalem, but ordered them to go to Dan or Bethel; which they not choosing to do erected altars in different places for divine service, and which the Jews r say were allowed; for from that time, the prohibition of altars at other places than at Jerusalem ceased:
and I am left alone: meaning either as a prophet, not knowing that Obadiah had hid an hundred prophets by fifty in a cave, 1 Kings 18:4; or else as a worshipper of the true God, imagining that he was the only person in Israel, that had a true zeal for the Lord of hosts:
and they seek my life; lay in wait for it, Jezebel by her emissaries being in quest of him; it is added in 1 Kings 19:14, "to take it away"; for she had swore by her gods, that by the morrow about that time, his life should be as the life of one of the prophets of Baal he had slain; and in one copy it is added here.
r Kimchi in 1 Kings xviii. 30.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Lord, they have killed ... - This is taken from 1 Kings 19:10. The quotation is not literally made, but the sense is preserved. This was a charge which Elijah brought against the whole nation; and the act of killing the prophets he regarded as expressive of the character of the people, or that they were universally given to wickedness. The fact was true that they had killed the prophets, etc.; 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:13; but the inference which Elijah seems to have drawn from it, that there were no pious people in the nation, was not well founded.
And digged down - Altars, by the Law of Moses, were required to be made of earth or unhewn stones; Exodus 20:24-25. Hence, the expression to dig them down means completely to demolish or destroy them.
Thine altars - There was one great altar in the front of the tabernacle and the temple, on which the daily sacrifices of the Jews were to be made. But they were not forbidden to make altars also elsewhere; Exodus 20:25. And hence they are mentioned as existing in other places; 1Sa 7:17; 1 Samuel 16:2-3; 1 Kings 18:30, 1 Kings 18:32. These were the altars of which Elijah complained as having been thrown down by the Jews; an act which was regarded as expressive of signal impiety.
I am left alone - I am the only prophet which is left alive. We are told that when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them and hid them in a cave; 1 Kings 18:4. But it is not improbable that they had been discovered and put to death by Ahab. The account which Obadiah gave Elijah when he met him 1 Kings 18:13 seems to favor such a supposition.
Seek my life - That is, Ahab and Jezebel seek to kill me. This they did because he had overcome and slain the prophets of Baal; 1 Kings 19:1-2. There could scarcely be conceived a time of greater distress and declension in religion than this. It has not often happened that so many things that were disheartening have occurred to the church at the same period of time. The prophets of God were slain; but one lonely man appeared to have zeal for true religion; the nation was running to idolatry; the civil rulers were criminally wicked, and were the leaders in the universal apostasy; and all the influences of wealth and power were setting in against the true religion to destroy it. It was natural that the solitary man of God should feel disheartened and lonely in this universal guilt; and should realize that he had no power to resist this tide of crime and calamities.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 11:3. Lord, they have killed thy prophets — They will not permit any person to speak unto them in thy name; and they murder those who are faithful to the commission which they have received from thee.
Digged down thine altars — They are profligate and profane beyond example, and retain not the slightest form of religion.
I am left alone — There is no prophet besides myself left, and they seek to destroy me.
