Roma 11:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

"Tuhan, nabi-nabi-Mu telah mereka bunuh, mezbah-mezbah-Mu telah mereka runtuhkan; hanya aku seorang dirilah yang masih hidup dan mereka ingin mencabut nyawaku."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Tuhan, nabi-nabi-Mu telah mereka bunuh, mezbah-mezbah-Mu telah mereka runtuhkan; hanya aku seorang dirilah yang masih hidup dan mereka ingin mencabut nyawaku."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Ya Tuhan, nabi-nabi-Mu sudah dibunuh oleh mereka itu, dan segala tempat korban-Mu sudah dibongkarnya; maka aku tinggal seorang diri sahaja, dan mereka itu menuntut nyawaku.

Contextual Overview

¹ I say then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seede of Abraham, of the tribe of Beniamin, ² God hath not cast away his people which he knewe before. Wote ye not what the scripture sayth of Elias? howe he maketh intercession to God, agaynst Israel, ³ Saying: Lord, they haue kylled thy prophetes, and dygged downe thyne aulters: and I am left alone, and they seke my lyfe. ⁴ But what sayth the aunswere of God vnto hym? I haue reserued vnto my selfe seuen thousande men, which haue not bowed the knee to [ye image of] Baal. ⁵ Euen so at this tyme, there is a remnaunt, according to the election of grace. ⁶ If it be of grace, then is it not nowe of workes: For the grace is no more grace. But yf it be of workes, then is it nowe no grace: For then worke is no more worke. ⁷ What then? Israel hath not obtayned that which he sought: but the election hath obtayned it, the remnaunt hath ben blynded, ⁸ Accordyng as it is written: God hath geuen them the spirite of remorse, eyes that they shoulde not see, and eares that they shoulde not heare, euen vnto this day. ⁹ And Dauid sayth: Let their table be made a snare, and a trappe, and a stumbling stocke, and a recompence vnto the. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be blinded yt they see not, & bowe thou downe their backe alway.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord: 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:13, 1 Kings 19:10-18, Nehemiah 9:26, Jeremiah 2:30

digged: 1 Kings 18:30, 1 Kings 18:31

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:22 - I only

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:6
And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, and this they begin to do: neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do.

Genesis 11:7
Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.

Genesis 11:18
And Peleg liued thirtie yeres, and begat Reu.

Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slyme pyttes: and the kynges of Sodome and Gomorrhe fledde, and fell there, and they that remayned, fledde to the mountayne.

Exodus 1:14
And they made their lyues bytter vnto them in that cruell bondage, in claye, and bricke, and all maner of worke in the fielde: for all their bondage wherein they serued them was ful of tirannie.

Exodus 2:3
And when she coulde no longer hyde hym, she toke a basket [made] of bull russhes, and dawbed it with slyme and pitche, and layed the chylde therein, and put it in the flagges by the riuers brinke

2 Samuel 12:31
And he caryed away the people that was therein, & put them vnder sawes, and vnder iron harrowes, and vnder axes of iron, & thrust them into the tylekyll: thus dyd he with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And so Dauid and al the people returned vnto Hierusalem.

Psalms 64:5
They courage them selues in mischiefe: and comune among them selues how they may lay snares, and say, who shall see them?

Proverbs 1:11
If they say, come with vs, let vs lay wayte for blood, and lurke priuily for the innocent without a cause:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lord, they have killed thy prophets,.... By the order of Jezebel, wife of Ahab king of Israel, 1 Kings 18:4. This sin of slaying the prophets of the Lord is charged upon the Jews by Christ,

Matthew 23:31, and by the apostle, 1 Thessalonians 2:15. In the text in

1 Kings 19:14, it is added, "with the sword": which expresses the manner of death they were put to; and this clause is there put after the following, according to a rule of transposition among the Jews;

1 Kings 19:14- :.

And digged down thine altars; either the altars which the patriarchs had formerly built, and were still in being; and though not used, yet were kept and had in great veneration; wherefore the pulling of them down was done in contempt of them, and of the worship of God, which had been formerly performed there; or else such altars, which the religious among the ten tribes built, since the times of Jeroboam, who forbad them to go up to Jerusalem, but ordered them to go to Dan or Bethel; which they not choosing to do erected altars in different places for divine service, and which the Jews r say were allowed; for from that time, the prohibition of altars at other places than at Jerusalem ceased:

and I am left alone: meaning either as a prophet, not knowing that Obadiah had hid an hundred prophets by fifty in a cave, 1 Kings 18:4; or else as a worshipper of the true God, imagining that he was the only person in Israel, that had a true zeal for the Lord of hosts:

and they seek my life; lay in wait for it, Jezebel by her emissaries being in quest of him; it is added in 1 Kings 19:14, "to take it away"; for she had swore by her gods, that by the morrow about that time, his life should be as the life of one of the prophets of Baal he had slain; and in one copy it is added here.

r Kimchi in 1 Kings xviii. 30.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lord, they have killed ... - This is taken from 1 Kings 19:10. The quotation is not literally made, but the sense is preserved. This was a charge which Elijah brought against the whole nation; and the act of killing the prophets he regarded as expressive of the character of the people, or that they were universally given to wickedness. The fact was true that they had killed the prophets, etc.; 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:13; but the inference which Elijah seems to have drawn from it, that there were no pious people in the nation, was not well founded.

And digged down - Altars, by the Law of Moses, were required to be made of earth or unhewn stones; Exodus 20:24-25. Hence, the expression to dig them down means completely to demolish or destroy them.

Thine altars - There was one great altar in the front of the tabernacle and the temple, on which the daily sacrifices of the Jews were to be made. But they were not forbidden to make altars also elsewhere; Exodus 20:25. And hence they are mentioned as existing in other places; 1Sa 7:17; 1 Samuel 16:2-3; 1 Kings 18:30, 1 Kings 18:32. These were the altars of which Elijah complained as having been thrown down by the Jews; an act which was regarded as expressive of signal impiety.

I am left alone - I am the only prophet which is left alive. We are told that when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them and hid them in a cave; 1 Kings 18:4. But it is not improbable that they had been discovered and put to death by Ahab. The account which Obadiah gave Elijah when he met him 1 Kings 18:13 seems to favor such a supposition.

Seek my life - That is, Ahab and Jezebel seek to kill me. This they did because he had overcome and slain the prophets of Baal; 1 Kings 19:1-2. There could scarcely be conceived a time of greater distress and declension in religion than this. It has not often happened that so many things that were disheartening have occurred to the church at the same period of time. The prophets of God were slain; but one lonely man appeared to have zeal for true religion; the nation was running to idolatry; the civil rulers were criminally wicked, and were the leaders in the universal apostasy; and all the influences of wealth and power were setting in against the true religion to destroy it. It was natural that the solitary man of God should feel disheartened and lonely in this universal guilt; and should realize that he had no power to resist this tide of crime and calamities.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 11:3. Lord, they have killed thy prophets — They will not permit any person to speak unto them in thy name; and they murder those who are faithful to the commission which they have received from thee.

Digged down thine altars — They are profligate and profane beyond example, and retain not the slightest form of religion.

I am left alone — There is no prophet besides myself left, and they seek to destroy me.