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1 Kings 19:18

Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

  • KJV King James Version

    Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Yet will I leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.'

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Cross-references (10)

Passages linked to 1 Kings 19:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Romans 11:4-5 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
  • Isaiah 1:9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.
  • Isaiah 10:20-22 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
  • Hosea 13:2 Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
  • Psalms 2:12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
  • Philippians 2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
  • Exodus 20:5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
  • Job 31:27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
  • Romans 14:10-12 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, “ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’ ” So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
  • Isaiah 49:23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

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Explain this verse (15 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He declareth that wicked dissemblers and idolaters are not…

He declareth that wicked dissemblers and idolaters are not his.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 19:18 Yet I have left [me] seven thousand…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I have left, or, I have reserved to myself;…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel,....…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain I have left - Or, I have reserved to…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 18. Seven thousand in Israel] That is, many…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ki 19:18. Yet have I left me, &c. —…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Yet I have left me ... - Rather, as…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Will leave. Hebrew also, "I have left," as Romans…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. I have left me seven thousand — Better,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. Yet I have left me] R.V. (and margin…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) I have left.—It should be “I leave, or…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Yet I have left me So St. Paul,lipon; Rom_11:4,…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Yet I have left Me seven thousand in Israel.
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 19:18 The Lord corrected Elijah’s thinking; the prophet was…

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