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Green's Literal Translation

1 Kings 18:11

And now, you are saying, Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah.

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.
English Standard Version
And now you say, ‘Go, tell your 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."'
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 And it happened after many days the Word of Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will give rain on the face of the earth. 2 And Elijah went to be seen by Ahab. And the famine in Samaria was severe. 3 And Ahab called to Obadiah, who was over the house (and Obadiah greatly feared Jehovah; 4 and it happened, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and had hidden them, fifty men in a cave, and had fed them with bread and water) 5 and Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water, and to all the torrents; perhaps we may find grass and keep alive horse and mule, and will not cut off any of the livestock. 6 And they divided the land to themselves, to pass over into it; Ahab went in one way by himself, and Obadiah went in another way by himself. 7 And Obadiah was in the highway; and behold, Elijah came to meet him. And he recognized him, and he fell on his face, and said, Are you this one, my lord Elijah? 8 And he said to him, I am ; Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah! 9 And he said, What have I sinned, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me? 10 As Jehovah 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, then he caused the kingdom and the nation to swear that it did not find 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
And Abraham fell on his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, Shall one be born to a son of a hundred years? And shall Sarah bear, a daughter of ninety years?
Genesis 17:24
And Abraham was a son of ninety nine years when being circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 18:11
And Abraham and Sarah were aged, going on in days. The custom as to women had ceased to be to Sarah.
Genesis 18:12
And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall there be pleasure to me; my lord also being old?
Genesis 18:18
And Abraham shall become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 18:21
I will go down and see if they have at all done according to the cry coming to Me. And if not, I will know.
Genesis 31:35
And she said to her father, Let no anger be in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before your face, for the way of women is to me. And he searched for and did not find the household idols.
Leviticus 15:19
And if a woman's issue in her flesh is a flow of blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Luke 1:7
And no child was born to them, because Elizabeth was barren. And both were advanced in their days.
Luke 1:18
And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? For I am old and my wife is advanced in her days.

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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