1 Rois 18:10

La Bible Ostervald

L'Éternel ton Dieu est vivant! il n'y a point de nation, ni de royaume, où mon maître n'ait envoyé pour te chercher; et comme l'on répondait: Il n'y est point, il faisait jurer le royaume et la nation, qu'on ne pouvait te trouver.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
L'�ternel, ton Dieu, est vivant, s'il y a nation ou royaume o� mon seigneur n'ait pas envoy� pour te chercher! Et quand ils disaient: Il n'est pas ici, il faisait jurer le royaume ou la nation qu'on ne t'avait pas trouv�.

Louis Segond (1910)
L'Eternel est vivant! il n'est ni nation ni royaume o� mon ma�tre n'ait envoy� pour te chercher; et quand on disait que tu n'y �tais pas, il faisait jurer le royaume et la nation que l'on ne t'avait pas trouv�.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
L'Eternel ton Dieu est vivant, qu'il n'y a ni nation, ni Royaume, o� mon Seigneur n'ait envoy� pour te chercher ; et on a r�pondu; il n'y est point. Il a m�me fait jurer les Royaumes et les nations [pour d�couvrir] si l'on ne pourrait point te trouver.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: 1 Kings 18:15, 1 Kings 1:29, 1 Kings 2:24, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:12, 1 Samuel 29:6

whither my lord: Psalms 10:2, Jeremiah 26:20-23

they found thee not: 1 Kings 17:5, 1 Kings 17:9, Psalms 12:7, Psalms 12:8, Psalms 31:20, Psalms 91:1, Jeremiah 36:26, John 8:59

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:23 - I will search 1 Kings 19:10 - they seek my life 2 Kings 1:9 - sent unto 2 Kings 11:4 - took an oath Jeremiah 36:19 - General John 8:21 - I go John 18:4 - Whom Romans 10:18 - unto the ends

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the Lord thy God liveth,.... Which is the form of an oath he thought fit to make, to ascertain the truth of what he was about to say:

there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee; which is either an hyperbolical expression, signifying he had sought for him in many places, and in every place he could think of; or it must be understood either of the ten tribes, which were as so many nations and kingdoms as they had been; or were more in the times of the Canaanites; or of the nations round about, that were in alliance with or tributary to the king of Israel:

and when they said, he is not there, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they found thee not; which he might exact of his own subjects, but could not of other nations, unless they were free to it of themselves; or he might take it of their ambassadors or merchants that came into his land, of whom he inquired, and adjured them to tell him the truth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is no nation ... - This is expressed in the style of Oriental hyperbole. What Obadiah means is: “there is no nation nor kingdom, of those over which he has influence, whither the king has not sent.” He could scarcely, for example, have exacted an oath from such countries as Egypt or Syria of Damascus. But Ahab may have been powerful enough to expect an oath from the neighboring Hittite, Moabite, and Edomite tribes, perhaps even from Ethbaal his father-in-law, and the kings of Hamath and Arpad.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 18:10. There is no nation or kingdom — He had sent through all his own states and to the neighbouring governments to find out the prophet, as he knew, from his own declaration, that both rain and drought were to be the effect of his prayers. Had he found him, he no doubt intended to oblige him to procure rain, or punish him for having brought on this drought.

He took an oath — Ahab must have had considerable power and authority among the neighbouring nations to require and exact this, and Elijah must have kept himself very secret to have shunned such an extensive and minute search.