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King James Version

1 Kings 18:14

And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Doubting;   Elijah;   Obadiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Carmel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Obadiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Zeal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kings, 1 and 2;   Obadiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Carmel;   Elijah;   Haggai;   Obadiah;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Obadiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount carmel;   Obadiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elijah;   Jezebel;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Obadi'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Obadiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now you say, ‘Go tell your lord, “Elijah is here!”’ He will kill me!”
Hebrew Names Version
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah [is here]; and he will kill me.
English Standard Version
And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; and he will kill me."
New Century Version
Now you want me to go and tell my master you are here? He will kill me!"
New English Translation
Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, "Elijah is back,"' but he will kill me."
Amplified Bible
"And now you are saying, 'Go, tell your master, "Elijah is here"'; and he will kill me."
New American Standard Bible
"Yet now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me!"
Geneva Bible (1587)
And now thou sayest, Go, tel thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here, that he may slay me.
Legacy Standard Bible
So now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me."
Contemporary English Version
Do you really want me to tell Ahab you're here? He will kill me!
Complete Jewish Bible
Now you say, ‘Go tell your master, "Look, Eliyahu is here."' Why, he'll kill me!"
Darby Translation
And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah! and he will kill me.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now you want me to go and tell the king that you are here. The king will kill me!"
George Lamsa Translation
And now you say to me, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he shall slay me.
Good News Translation
So how can you order me to go and tell the king that you are here? He will kill me!"
Lexham English Bible
Now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your lord: "Elijah is here,"' and he will kill me."
Literal Translation
And now you are saying, Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah, and he will kill me!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thou sayest now: Go thy waye, tell thy lorde: Elias is here, that he maye slaye me.
American Standard Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.
Bible in Basic English
And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou sayest, Go thou now & shewe thy lorde, beholde Elias is here: that he may slay me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.'
King James Version (1611)
And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here: and hee shall slay me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now thou sayest to me, Go, say to thy master, Behold, Eliu is here: and he shall slay me.
English Revised Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah: [is here]: and he shall slay me.
Berean Standard Bible
And now you say, 'Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!' He will kill me!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now thou seist, Go, and seie to thi lord, Elie is present, that he sle me.
Young's Literal Translation
and now thou art saying, Go, say to my lord, Lo, Elijah -- and he hath slain me!'
Update Bible Version
And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Look, Elijah [is here]; and he will slay me.
Webster's Bible Translation
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]: and he will slay me.
World English Bible
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; and he will kill me.
New King James Version
And now you say, "Go, tell your master, "Elijah is here."' He will kill me!"
New Living Translation
And now you say, ‘Go and tell your master, "Elijah is here."' Sir, if I do that, Ahab will certainly kill me."
New Life Bible
Now you are saying, ‘Go and tell your owner, "See, Elijah is here."' He will kill me."
New Revised Standard
Yet now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord that Elijah is here'; he will surely kill me."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and yet, now, thou, art saying, Go, tell thy lord - Here, is, Elijah; and so he will slay me!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.
Revised Standard Version
And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here"'; and he will kill me."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me."

Contextual Overview

1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. 2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria. 3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly: 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord , that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) 5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. 7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah? 8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. 9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? 10 As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and he shall slay me: Matthew 10:28

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:11 - Go 2 Kings 6:32 - son of a murderer John 18:4 - Whom

Cross-References

Genesis 17:21
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis 18:2
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Numbers 11:23
And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord 'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Deuteronomy 7:21
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Deuteronomy 30:3
That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
1 Samuel 14:6
And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord will work for us: for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.
2 Kings 4:16
And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
Job 36:5
Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now thou sayest, go tell my lord, behold, Elijah [is here]: and he shall slay me. That is, should he carry such a message to him, and Elijah should be removed elsewhere, and not to be found.


 
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