1 Kings 18:39

The NET Bible®

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!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When all the people saw it, they fell facedown and 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.

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.

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

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!"

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.

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

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!"

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.

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!"

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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!"

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.'

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.

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.

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!"

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."

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.

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."

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!"

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."

Contextual Overview

²¹ Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? If the Lord is the true God, then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!" But the people did not say a word. ²² Elijah said to them: "I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal. ²³ Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire. ²⁴ Then you will invoke the name of your god, and I will invoke the name of the Lord . The god who responds with fire will demonstrate that he is the true God." All the people responded, "This will be a fair test." ²⁵ Elijah told the prophets of Baal, "Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire." ²⁶ So they took a bull, as he had suggested, and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "Baal, answer us." But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped around on the altar they had made. ²⁷ At noon Elijah mocked them, "Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened." ²⁸ So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood. ²⁹ Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, but there was no sound, no answer, and no response. ³⁰ Elijah then told all the people, "Approach me." So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord 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.