1 Kings 18:39

THE MESSAGE

All the people saw it happen and fell on their faces in awed worship, exclaiming, " God is the true God! God is the true God!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When all the people saw it, they fell facedown and said, “The Lord, he is God! The Lord, he is God!”

Hebrew Names Version
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, the LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.

King James Version
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord , he is the God; the Lord , he is the God.

English Standard Version
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, "The Lord , he is God; the Lord , he is God."

New Century Version
When all the people saw this, they fell down to the ground, crying, "The Lord is God! The Lord is God!"

New English Translation
When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, "The Lord is the true God! The Lord is the true God!"

Amplified Bible
When all the people saw it, they fell face downward; and they said, "The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!"

New American Standard Bible
When all the people saw this, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces, and saide, The Lord is God, the Lord is God.

Legacy Standard Bible
And all the people saw it and fell on their faces and said, "Yahweh, He is God; Yahweh, He is God."

Contemporary English Version
When the crowd saw what had happened, they all bowed down and shouted, "The Lord is God! The Lord is God!"

Complete Jewish Bible
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, " Adonai is God! Adonai is God!"

Darby Translation
And all the people saw [it], and they fell on their faces and said, Jehovah, he is God! Jehovah, he is God!

Easy-to-Read Version
All the people saw this happen and bowed down to the ground and began saying, "The Lord is God! The Lord is God!"

George Lamsa Translation
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.

Good News Translation
When the people saw this, they threw themselves on the ground and exclaimed, "The Lord is God; the Lord alone is God!"

Lexham English Bible
When all the people saw, they fell on their faces and said, "Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!"

Literal Translation
And all the people saw, and fell on their faces, and said, Jehovah, He is the God; Jehovah, He is the God!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan all the people sawe that, they fell vpon their faces, and sayde: The LORDE is God, ye LORDE is God.

American Standard Version
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Jehovah, he is God; Jehovah, he is God.

Bible in Basic English
And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces, and sayde: The Lord he is God, the Lorde he is God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.'

King James Version (1611)
And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces: and they saide, The Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the people fell upon their faces, and said, Truly the Lord is God; he is God.

English Revised Version
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.

Berean Standard Bible
When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, "The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne al the puple hadde seyn this, it felde in to his face, and seide, The Lord he is God; the Lord he is God.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the people see, and fall on their faces, and say, `Jehovah, He [is] the God, Jehovah, He [is] the God.'

Update Bible Version
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Yahweh, he is God; Yahweh, he is God.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is] the God.

World English Bible
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Yahweh, he is God; Yahweh, he is God.

New King James Version
Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!"

New Living Translation
And when all the people saw it, they fell face down on the ground and cried out, "The Lord —he is God! Yes, the Lord is God!"

New Life Bible
All the people fell on their faces when they saw it. They said, "The Lord, He is God. The Lord, He is God."

New Revised Standard
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, "The Lord indeed is God; the Lord indeed is God."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when all the people saw it, they fell upon their faces, - and said, Yahweh, he, is GOD, Yahweh, he, is GOD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.

Revised Standard Version
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God."

Contextual Overview

²¹ Elijah challenged the people: "How long are you going to sit on the fence? If God is the real God, follow him; if it's Baal, follow him. Make up your minds!" Nobody said a word; nobody made a move. ²²Then Elijah said, "I'm the only prophet of God left in Israel; and there are 450 prophets of Baal. Let the Baal prophets bring up two oxen; let them pick one, butcher it, and lay it out on an altar on firewood—but don't ignite it. I'll take the other ox, cut it up, and lay it on the wood. But neither will I light the fire. Then you pray to your gods and I'll pray to God . The god who answers with fire will prove to be, in fact, God." All the people agreed: "A good plan—do it!" ²⁵ Elijah told the Baal prophets, "Choose your ox and prepare it. You go first, you're the majority. Then pray to your god, but don't light the fire." ²⁶ So they took the ox he had given them, prepared it for the altar, then prayed to Baal. They prayed all morning long, "O Baal, answer us!" But nothing happened—not so much as a whisper of breeze. Desperate, they jumped and stomped on the altar they had made. ²⁷By noon, Elijah had started making fun of them, taunting, "Call a little louder—he is a god, after all. Maybe he's off meditating somewhere or other, or maybe he's gotten involved in a project, or maybe he's on vacation. You don't suppose he's overslept, do you, and needs to be waked up?" They prayed louder and louder, cutting themselves with swords and knives—a ritual common to them—until they were covered with blood. ²⁹ This went on until well past noon. They used every religious trick and strategy they knew to make something happen on the altar, but nothing happened—not so much as a whisper, not a flicker of response. ³⁰Then Elijah told the people, "Enough of that—it's my turn. Gather around." And they gathered. He then put the altar back together for by now it was in ruins. Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes of Jacob, the same Jacob to whom God had said, "From now on your name is Israel." He built the stones into the altar in honor of God . Then Elijah dug a fairly wide trench around the altar. He laid firewood on the altar, cut up the ox, put it on the wood, and said, "Fill four buckets with water and drench both the ox and the firewood." Then he said, "Do it again," and they did it. Then he said, "Do it a third time," and they did it a third time. The altar was drenched and the trench was filled with water. ³⁶When it was time for the sacrifice to be offered, Elijah the prophet came up and prayed, "O God , God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, make it known right now that you are God in Israel, that I am your servant, and that I'm doing what I'm doing under your orders. Answer me, God ; O answer me and reveal to this people that you are God , the true God, and that you are giving these people another chance at repentance." ³⁸ Immediately the fire of God fell and burned up the offering, the wood, the stones, the dirt, and even the water in the trench. ³⁹ All the people saw it happen and fell on their faces in awed worship, exclaiming, " God is the true God! God is the true God!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they fell: Judges 13:20, 1 Chronicles 21:16, 2 Chronicles 7:3

The Lord: 1 Kings 18:21, 1 Kings 18:24, John 5:35, Acts 2:37, Acts 4:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:4 - Lord Genesis 17:3 - General Leviticus 9:24 - they shouted Numbers 14:5 - General Joshua 22:34 - Ed 1 Kings 8:60 - the Lord 1 Kings 18:45 - there was 2 Kings 19:15 - thou art the God Psalms 94:16 - rise up Psalms 118:27 - God Jeremiah 10:10 - the Lord Jeremiah 14:22 - Art Luke 5:12 - fell

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces,.... In reverence of God, astonished at the miracle wrought, ashamed of themselves and their sins, particularly their idolatry, that they should turn their backs on the true God, and follow idols:

and they said, the Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God; which acknowledgment of God, as the true God, in opposition to Baal, is repeated, to show their firm belief and strong assurance of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord, he is the God - The people thus pronounced the matter to be clearly and certainly decided. Baal was overthrown; he was proved to be no god at all. The Lord Yahweh, He, and He alone, is God. Him would they henceforth acknowledge, and no other.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 39. Fell on their faces — Struck with awe and reverence at the sight of this incontestable miracle.

And they said — We should translate the words thus: JEHOVAH, He is the God! JEHOVAH, He is the God! Baal is not the God; Jehovah alone is the God of Israel.

As our term Lord is very equivocal, we should every where insert the original word יהוה, which we should write Yeve or Yeheveh, or Yahvah or Yehueh, or, according to the points, Yehovah.