1 Kings 18:39

Christian Standard Bible ®

When all the people saw it, they fell facedown and said, "Yahweh, He is God! Yahweh, He is God!"

Parallel Translations

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

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.

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!"

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!"

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.

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.

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!"

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!

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.

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.

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!"

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.

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.'

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."

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!"

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.

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

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

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.'

Contextual Overview

²¹ Then Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If Yahweh is God, follow Him. But if Baal, follow him." But the people didn't answer him a word. ²² Then Elijah said to the people, "I am the only remaining prophet of the Lord , but Baal's prophets are 450 men. ²³ Let two bulls be given to us. They are to choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire. ²⁴ Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh. The God who answers with fire, He is God." All the people answered, "That sounds good." ²⁵ Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god but don't light the fire." ²⁶ So they took the bull that he gave them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "Baal, answer us!" But there was no sound; no one answered. Then they danced, hobbling around the altar they had made. ²⁷ At noon Elijah mocked them. He said, "Shout loudly, for he's a god! Maybe he's thinking it over; maybe he has wandered away; or maybe he's on the road. Perhaps he's sleeping and will wake up!" ²⁸ They shouted loudly, and cut themselves with knives and spears, according to their custom, until blood gushed over them. ²⁹ All afternoon they kept on raving until the offering of the evening sacrifice, but there was no sound; no one answered, no one paid attention. ³⁰ Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near me." So all the people approached him. Then he repaired the Lord 's altar that had been torn down:

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.