 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.  Select British divines, ed. by C. Bradley - Page 220edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Hugh James Rose - 1831 - 242 pages
...but that, with them, every worshipper too had perished, he uttered that piercing complaint, 'Behold I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life to take it away?' What says the Holy Apostle ? When ' no man stood with him but all forsook him,' did he give up the... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...Ami he said, I have been very jealous foi llie LORD God of hosts: for the children of Is f ;*]•! have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the awnrd ; and I, even 1 only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away. 11 Ami he said, Go forth,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts...only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. THE history of all the saints of old sufficiently proves, that there is no such thing as sinless perfection... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...: and, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What dost thou here, Elijah ? 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts...am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away. 15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus : and, when thou... | |
 | John (st.) - 1832 - 82 pages
...What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away."—1 Kings xix 1 —10. * " And there were also Sodomites in the land ; and they did according... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, and thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with...only, am left, and they seek my life to take it away.' He then relates the vision of the prophet, and applies it to the condition and prospects of his church.... | |
 | William Wollaston Pym - 1832 - 154 pages
...grace," and 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... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...about this time. The children of Israel (said Elijah in the cave of Horeb to the angel of the Lord) 3 «word, and I only am left, and they seek my in- to take it away. 1 Ki. xix. 2. 10. 14. All ib said... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 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.... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 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...only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto him Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not... | |
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