1 Kings 19:2
and Jezebel sends a messenger to Elijah, saying, “Thus the gods do, and thus do they add—surely about this time tomorrow, I make your life as the life of one of them.”
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Exodus 10:28and Pharaoh says to him, “Go from me, take heed to yourself, do not add to see my face, for in the day you see my face you die”;
Ruth 1:17Where you die I die, and there I am buried; thus does YHWH to me, and thus He adds—for death itself parts between me and you.”
1 Kings 2:28And the report has come to Joab—for Joab has turned aside after Adonijah, though he did not turn aside after Absalom—and Joab flees to the tent of YHWH, and lays hold on the horns of the altar.
2 Kings 6:31And he says, “Thus God does to me and thus He adds, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on him this day.”
2 Kings 19:22Whom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Indeed, you lift up your eyes on high—Against the Holy One of Israel!
Proverbs 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, || For you do not know what a day brings forth.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 19:2-9
Elijah's Flight from Jezebel. ( b. c. 906.) 1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the… Read the whole commentary →