 | Moses Stuart - Bible - 1832 - 584 pages
...Israel have forsaken thy covenant, they have destroyed thine altars, and killed thy prophets ; and I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away." The prophet complains, in these words, of what he supposed to be the universal apostasy of Israel.... | |
 | William Wollaston Pym - Gifts, Spiritual - 1832 - 154 pages
...upon that remnant, smaller even than in the prophet's time when he mournfully exclaimed, " I even I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away," the gifts were bestowed; and the very bestowal of them was one appointed instrument of increasing the... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Bible - 1833 - 304 pages
...comprehension 1 why must I repeat this truth so often to you, that the rule and do1 " And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts : because the...and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto him Yet I have left... | |
 | William Stevens (biographer.) - 1833 - 786 pages
...him, and said ; What doest thou here, Elijah ? And he said, 1 have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of Hosts : because the children of Israel have...and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away. And Jehovah said unto him, Go, return on thy... | |
 | John Sinclair - Church polity - 1833 - 410 pages
...if it had entirely apostatized and disappeared from the earth. He exclaims in his address to God, " The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only am left." We read of Ahab that he gathered his prophets together, about four hundred men, and... | |
 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - Sermons - 1833 - 412 pages
...They have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, slain thy prophets with the sword, and I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away.' But what said the voice from heaven. No. Thou art not left alone. Beneath this appearance of universal... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 466 pages
...own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken." 1 Cor. xi. 21. 6 " And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts : because the...and slain thy prophets with the sword ; and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto him, .... Yet i have... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1834 - 618 pages
...behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah ! And lie said, I have been witli the sword; and I, «ven I only am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."* The second... | |
 | Robert Wilson Evans - Bible - 1834 - 390 pages
...entrance of the cave. The voice demanded, " What doest thouhere, Elijah ?" And he answered, " I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenants, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword : and I, even 1 only, am... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 pages
..." It is enough. Now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers." " I, even I, only am left; and they seek my life to take it away." But what was the answer of the Lord to Elijah ? " I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the... | |
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I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : because 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. 
