 | Charles Bradley - 1823 - 508 pages
...Fear changes not the tenor of Elijah's answer. He hath not left one word behind him in the cave; ' I have been very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts;...am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.' I hear not a direct answer from the prophet, to the demand of God : then he had said, ' I run away... | |
 | Baptists - 1823 - 486 pages
...depp and gloomy apprehensions respecting the slati; of religion in his day. " 1 have," said he, "bpen very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts : because the...and slain thy prophets with the sword, and I, even Í only am left ; and they seek my life to take it away." Such a declaration as this, coming from such... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...thou " here, Elijah ?" 10. And he said, " I " have been very jealous for the LORD " God of hosts : for the children of " Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...am left, and they seek my " life to take it away." 1 1 . And he said, " Go forth, and stand upon the mount (i) v. 4. " Die." This gave occasion to St.... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bible - 1825 - 714 pages
...Fear changes not the tenor of Elijah's answer : he hath not left one word behind him in the cave. " I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts,...only, am left, and they seek my life to take it away." I hear not a direct answer from the prophet to the demand of God ; then he had said, I run away from... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...about this time, xix. 2. And he said, I have been тегу jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...the sword; and I, even I only, am left ; and they «eek my life, to take it away, 10. But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah... | |
 | James Ross - 1825 - 472 pages
...wert thou actually in the situation in which the prophet Elijah supposed himself to be, when he said, The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left : Wert thou actually in this situation, a solitary worshipper of the true God, yet surely the thought... | |
 | Thomas Wetherald - Sermons, American - 1826 - 220 pages
...And after the fire a still small voice. And the voice said unto him, what doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord...only, am left; and they seek my life to take it away." And it remains to be a truth at the present day, that when this calm comes over the mind, we can pour... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...here, Elijah ? 10 And he said, e I have been very jealous for the LORD cHom.xi.s. God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...sword ; and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my hfe, to take it away. 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold,... | |
 | Joshua Gilpin - 1827 - 560 pages
...and it is given in the following terms — I have been very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts ; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...only am left; and they seek my life to take it away. In these circumstances the despairing prophet seems to have had no thought of making any further attempt... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - Sermons, French - 1827 - 522 pages
...cool his zeal. Observe Elijah, '. I have been,' said he, ' very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...only am left, and they seek my life to take it away,' 1 Kings xix. 10. Behold good Eli, the frost of fourscore could not chill the ardour that inflamed him.... | |
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I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my life to take it away. 
