1 Kings 19:1

Now Ahab tolde Iezebel all that Eliiah had done, and how he had slaine all the prophets with the sword.

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In The King James Version

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

In Context

2Then Iezebel sent a messenger vnto Eliiah, saying, The gods doe so to me and more also, if I make not thy life like one of their liues by to morowe this time.

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Cross References

1 Kings 16:31For was it a light thing for him to walke in the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, except hee tooke Iezebel also the daughter of Ethbaal King of the Zidonians to wife, and went and serued Baal, and worshipped him?

1 Kings 21:5Then Iezebel his wife came to him and said vnto him, Why is thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread?

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 19:1

We left Elijah at the entrance of Jezreel, still appearing publicly, and all the people's eyes upon him. In this chapter we have him again absconding, and driven into obscurity, at a time when he could ill be spared; but we are to look upon it as a punishment to Israel for the insincerity and inconstancy of their reformation. When people will not learn it is just with God to remove their teachers into corners. Now observe, I. How he was driven into banishment by the malice of Jezebel his sworn enemy, ver. 1-3 .… Read the whole commentary →

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