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1 Kings 19:2
“Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
1 Kings 19:2 in the King James Version
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.Read 1 Kings 19:2 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 19
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!
When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Cross references for 1 Kings 19:2
- Ruth 1:17
where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me.
- 1 Kings 20:10
Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.
- 2 Kings 6:31
Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.
- Exodus 10:28
Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!
- Proverbs 27:1
Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may bring forth.
- 2 Kings 19:10-12
Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, "Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done ...
- 2 Kings 19:27-28
But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my brid...
- 1 Kings 2:28
The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
- Daniel 3:15
Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into...
- Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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