1 Kings 19:10
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10 So he said, (A)“I have been very (B)zealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and (C)killed Your prophets with the sword. (D)I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.”
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1 Kings 18:4
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4 For so it was, while Jezebel [a]massacred the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water.)
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- 1 Kings 18:4 Lit. cut off
1 Kings 18:22
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22 Then Elijah said to the people, (A)“I alone am left a prophet of the Lord; (B)but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
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Exodus 34:14
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14 (for you shall worship (A)no other god, for the Lord, whose (B)name is Jealous, is a (C)jealous God),
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Exodus 20:5
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5 (A)you shall not bow down to them nor [a]serve them. (B)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, (C)visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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- Exodus 20:5 worship
- Exodus 20:5 punishing
Romans 11:2-4
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2 God has not cast away His people whom (A)He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 3 (B)“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? 4 But what does the divine response say to him? (C)“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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1 Kings 18:30
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30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. (A)And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.
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Numbers 25:13
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13 and it shall be to him and (A)his descendants after him a covenant of (B)an everlasting priesthood, because he was (C)zealous for his God, and (D)made [a]atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”
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- Numbers 25:13 Lit. covering
Numbers 25:11
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11 (A)“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in (B)My zeal.
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John 2:17
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17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, (A)“Zeal for Your house [a]has eaten Me up.”
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- John 2:17 NU, M will eat
Micah 7:2
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2 The (A)faithful[a] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
(B)Every man hunts his brother with a net.
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- Micah 7:2 Or loyal
Micah 6:16
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16 For the statutes of (A)Omri are (B)kept;
All the works of Ahab’s house are done;
And you walk in their counsels,
That I may make you a [a]desolation,
And your inhabitants a hissing.
Therefore you shall bear the (C)reproach of [b]My people.”
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- Micah 6:16 Or object of horror
- Micah 6:16 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX nations
Hosea 5:11
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Jeremiah 2:30
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30 “In vain I have (A)chastened your children;
They (B)received no correction.
Your sword has (C)devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.
Psalm 119:139
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- Psalm 119:139 put an end to
Psalm 69:9
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9 (A)Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
(B)And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
1 Kings 22:8
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8 So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”
And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say such things!”
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1 Kings 20:41-42
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41 And he hastened to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. 42 Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord: (A)‘Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’ ”
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1 Kings 19:14
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14 (A)And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.”
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1 Kings 19:2
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2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, (A)“So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
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1 Kings 18:20
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Elijah’s Mount Carmel Victory
20 So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and (A)gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel.
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1 Kings 18:17
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17 Then it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, (A)“Is that you, O (B)troubler of Israel?”
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1 Kings 18:10
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10 As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to hunt for you; and when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath from the kingdom or nation that they could not find you.
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1 Kings 20:35
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Ahab Condemned
35 Now a certain man of (A)the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor (B)by the word of the Lord, “Strike me, please.” And the man refused to strike him.
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1 Kings 20:22
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22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself; take note, and see what you should do, (A)for [a]in the spring of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”
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- 1 Kings 20:22 Lit. at the return
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