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Hebrew Names Version

1 Kings 18:14

Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah [is here]; and he will kill me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Doubting;   Elijah;   Obadiah;  

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 - Kings, 1 and 2;   Obadiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Carmel;   Elijah;   Haggai;   Obadiah;   Prophecy, Prophets;   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!”’ He will kill me!”
King James Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
English Standard Version
And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; and he will kill me."
New Century Version
Now you want me to go and tell my master you are here? He will kill me!"
New English Translation
Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, "Elijah is back,"' but he will kill me."
Amplified Bible
"And now you are saying, 'Go, tell your master, "Elijah is here"'; and he will kill me."
New American Standard Bible
"Yet now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me!"
Geneva Bible (1587)
And now thou sayest, Go, tel thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here, that he may slay me.
Legacy Standard Bible
So now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me."
Contemporary English Version
Do you really want me to tell Ahab you're here? He will kill me!
Complete Jewish Bible
Now you say, ‘Go tell your master, "Look, Eliyahu is here."' Why, he'll kill me!"
Darby Translation
And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah! and he will kill me.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now you want me to go and tell the king that you are here. The king will kill me!"
George Lamsa Translation
And now you say to me, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he shall slay me.
Good News Translation
So how can you order me to go and tell the king that you are here? He will kill me!"
Lexham English Bible
Now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your lord: "Elijah is here,"' and he will kill me."
Literal Translation
And now you are saying, Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah, and he will kill me!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thou sayest now: Go thy waye, tell thy lorde: Elias is here, that he maye slaye me.
American Standard Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.
Bible in Basic English
And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou sayest, Go thou now & shewe thy lorde, beholde Elias is here: that he may slay me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.'
King James Version (1611)
And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here: and hee shall slay me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now thou sayest to me, Go, say to thy master, Behold, Eliu is here: and he shall slay me.
English Revised Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah: [is here]: and he shall slay me.
Berean Standard Bible
And now you say, 'Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!' He will kill me!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now thou seist, Go, and seie to thi lord, Elie is present, that he sle me.
Young's Literal Translation
and now thou art saying, Go, say to my lord, Lo, Elijah -- and he hath slain me!'
Update Bible Version
And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Look, Elijah [is here]; and he will slay me.
Webster's Bible Translation
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]: and he will slay me.
World English Bible
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; and he will kill me.
New King James Version
And now you say, "Go, tell your master, "Elijah is here."' He will kill me!"
New Living Translation
And now you say, ‘Go and tell your master, "Elijah is here."' Sir, if I do that, Ahab will certainly kill me."
New Life Bible
Now you are saying, ‘Go and tell your owner, "See, Elijah is here."' He will kill me."
New Revised Standard
Yet now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord that Elijah is here'; he will surely kill me."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and yet, now, thou, art saying, Go, tell thy lord - Here, is, Elijah; and so he will slay me!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.
Revised Standard Version
And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here"'; and he will kill me."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me."

Contextual Overview

1 It happened after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Eliyah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ach'av; and I will send rain on the eretz. 2 Eliyah went to show himself to Ach'av. The famine was sore in Shomron. 3 Ach'av called `Ovadyah, who was over the household. (Now `Ovadyah feared the LORD greatly: 4 for it was so, when Izevel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that `Ovadyah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) 5 Ach'av said to `Ovadyah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals. 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ach'av went one way by himself, and `Ovadyah went another way by himself. 7 As `Ovadyah was in the way, behold, Eliyah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Eliyah? 8 He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah [is here]. 9 He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ach'av, 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 said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and he shall slay me: Matthew 10:28

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:11 - Go 2 Kings 6:32 - son of a murderer John 18:4 - Whom

Cross-References

Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I establish with Yitzchak, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."
Genesis 18:1
The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the eretz,
Genesis 18:10
He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Numbers 11:23
The LORD said to Moshe, Has the LORD's hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not.
Deuteronomy 7:21
You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
Deuteronomy 30:3
that then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where the LORD your God has scattered you.
1 Samuel 14:6
Yonatan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us; for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
2 Kings 4:16
He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.
Job 36:5
"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now thou sayest, go tell my lord, behold, Elijah [is here]: and he shall slay me. That is, should he carry such a message to him, and Elijah should be removed elsewhere, and not to be found.


 
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