1 Kings 18:10
As LORD thy God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek thee. And when they said, He is not here, he took an oath from the kingdom and nation that they did not find thee.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
9And he said, How have I sinned that thou would deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me?
11And now thou say, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty. And I will go with you, and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among a
1 Kings 1:29And the king swore, and said, As LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
1 Kings 17:1And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
1 Kings 17:9Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.
1 Kings 18:15And Elijah said, As LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.
Psalms 12:7Thou will keep them, O LORD. Thou will preserve them from this generation forever.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 18:2-17
The Character of Obadiah; Elijah's Interview with Obadiah. ( b. c. 906.) 1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. 2 And Elijah went to show 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 a… Read the whole commentary →