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1 Kings 19 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 - And Achaab told Jezabel his wife all that Eliu had done, and how he had slain the prophets with the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - And Jezabel sent to Eliu, and said, If thou art Eliu and I am Jezabel, God [fn]do so to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life by this time to-morrow as the life of one of them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:3 - And Eliu feared, and rose, and departed for his life: and he comes to Bersabee to the land of Juda, and he left his servant there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:5 - And he lay down and slept there under a tree; and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:6 - And Eliu looked, and, behold, at his head there was a cake of meal and a cruse of water; and he arose, and ate and drank, and returned and lay down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:7 - And the angel of the Lord returned again, and touched him, and said to him, Arise, and eat, for the journey is far from thee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8 - And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9 - And he entered there into a cave, and rested there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said, What doest thou here, Eliu?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:10 - And Eliu said, [fn] I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thee: they have digged down thine altars, and have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - And he said, Thou shalt go forth to-morrow, and shalt stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And, behold, a great and strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:12 - and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire the voice of a gentle breeze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:13 - And it came to pass when Eliu heard, that he wrapt his face in his mantle, and went forth and stood in the cave: and, behold, a voice came to him and said, What doest thou here, Eliu?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:14 - And Eliu said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, and they have overthrown thine altars, and have slain thy prophets with the sword! and I am left entirely alone, and they seek my life to take it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 - And the Lord said to him, Go, return, and thou shalt come into the way of the wilderness of Damascus: and thou shalt go and anoint Azael to be king over Syria.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:16 - And Ju the son of Namessi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisaie the son of Saphat shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:17 - And it shall come to pass, that him that escapes from the sword of Azael, Ju shall slay; and him that escapes from the sword of Ju, Elisaie shall slay.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:18 - And thou shalt leave in Israel seven thousand men, all the knees which had not bowed [fn]themselves to Baal, and every mouth which had not worshipped him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:19 - And he departed thence, and finds Elisaie the son of Saphat, and he was ploughing with oxen; there were twelve yoke before him, and he [fn]with the twelve, and he [fn]passed by to him, and cast his mantle upon him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:20 - And Elisaie left the cattle, and ran after Eliu and said, I will kiss my father, and follow after thee. And Eliu said, Return, for I have done a work for thee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:21 - And he returned [fn]from following him, and took [fn]a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled them with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and he arose, and went after Eliu, and ministered to him.
BES Footnotes
Lit. do these things to me, and add these things.
Rom. 11:3.
Gr. the knee.
Gr. in.
Gr. departed.
Gr. from behind him.
Gr. the yokes.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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