1 Kings 17:2

The NET Bible®

The Lord told him:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the word of the Lord came to him:

Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to him, saying,

King James Version
And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,

English Standard Version
And the word of the Lord came to him:

New Century Version
Then the Lord spoke his word to Elijah:

Amplified Bible
And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the worde of the Lorde came vnto him, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

Contemporary English Version
Later, the Lord said to Elijah,

Complete Jewish Bible
Then the word of Adonai came to him:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came to him saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord said to Elijah,

George Lamsa Translation
And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

Good News Translation
Then the Lord said to Elijah,

Lexham English Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah came to him, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the worde of the LORDE came vnto him, and sayde:

American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the worde of the Lorde came vnto him, saying:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the worde of the Lord came vnto him, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came to Eliu, saying,

English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to hym, and seide,

Young's Literal Translation
And the word of Jehovah is unto him, saying,

Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

New King James Version
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Elijah,

New Life Bible
And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to him, saying,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh unto him, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

Revised Standard Version
And the word of the LORD came to him,

THE MESSAGE
God then told Elijah, "Get out of here, and fast. Head east and hide out at the Kerith Ravine on the other side of the Jordan River. You can drink fresh water from the brook; I've ordered the ravens to feed you."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The word of the LORD came to him, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command." ² The Lord told him: ³ "Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. ⁴ Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there." ⁵ So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. ⁶ The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream. ⁷ After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 12:22, 1 Chronicles 17:3, Jeremiah 7:1, Jeremiah 11:1, Jeremiah 18:1, Hosea 1:1, Hosea 1:2

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:8 - the word

Cross-References

Genesis 9:9
"Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you

Genesis 12:2
Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

Genesis 13:16
And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

Genesis 15:18
That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—

Genesis 17:4
"As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 17:6
I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 17:8
I will give the whole land of Canaan—the land where you are now residing—to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."

Genesis 17:11
You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

Genesis 17:18
Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live before you!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the word of the Lord came to him,.... The word of prophecy, as the Targum; this shows that by word, in the former verse, he means the word of the Lord by him:

saying; as follows.