1 Kings 19:14
He replied again, “I have zealously served you, Yahweh, God Almighty. But the Israeli people have broken the agreement that they made with you. They have torn down your altars, and they have killed all of your prophets. I am the only one whom they have not killed, and now they are trying to kill me, too. So I am running away from them.”
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Deuteronomy 29:25“Then other people will reply, ‘It is because they refused to keep the agreement that Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped, had made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.
1 Kings 19:9He went into a cave there and slept there that night. The next morning, Yahweh said to him “Elijah, why are you here?”
Isaiah 1:4Terrible things will happen to that sinful nation, to those people who are guilty of sinning greatly. They are a group of very evil people, who act very unjustly. They have abandoned Yahweh, the holy one of Israel; they have ◄abandoned/turned away from► him.
Isaiah 62:6You people of Jerusalem, I have placed watchmen on your walls; they will [LIT] earnestly pray to Yahweh day and night. You watchmen, you must not stop praying and reminding Yahweh about what he has promised to do!
Daniel 11:30The army of Rome will come in ships and oppose his army and cause him to be afraid. So he will be very angry, and with his army he will return to Israel and try to get rid of the Supreme Priest. The King of Syria will do what those who have abandoned the Jewish religion advise/want him to do for them.
Hebrews 8:9That covenant will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I led them out of Egypt [MET] like a father leads a child by the hand. They did not continue to obey my covenant, so I rejected them,” says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 19:10-19
Elijah's Converse with God. ( b. c. 906.) 9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest 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, 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. 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord .… Read the whole commentary →