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I am the only one left--and they are trying to kill me!" </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/1_kings/19-10.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/1_kings/19-10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/1_kings/19-10.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_kings/1.htm">1 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_kings/19.htm">Chapter 19</a> > Verse 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/19-9.htm" title="1 Kings 19:9">◄</a> 1 Kings 19:10 <a href="../1_kings/19-11.htm" title="1 Kings 19:11">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/1_kings/19.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/1_kings/19.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />He answered, "LORD God Almighty, I have always served you--you alone. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed all your prophets. I am the only one left--and they are trying to kill me!" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_kings/19.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />He answered, “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/1_kings/19.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />He answered, "LORD God All-Powerful, I've always done my best to obey you. But your people have broken their solemn promise to you. They have torn down your altars and killed all your prophets, except me. And now they are even trying to kill me!" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_kings/19.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He answered: “I have been most zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts, but the Israelites have forsaken your covenant. They have destroyed your altars and murdered your prophets by the sword. I alone remain, and they seek to take my life.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/1_kings/19.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.</p><p class="hdg">very jealous</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/20-5.htm">Exodus 20:5</a> Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/34-14.htm">Exodus 34:14</a> Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is jealous, he is a jealous God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/25-11.htm">Numbers 25:11,13</a> Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/69-9.htm">Psalm 69:9</a> For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-139.htm">Psalm 119:139</a> My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/2-17.htm">John 2:17</a> And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.</p><p class="hdg">thrown down</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/19-14.htm">1 Kings 19:14</a> With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/18-4.htm">1 Kings 18:4,30</a> For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/2-30.htm">Jeremiah 2:30</a> In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/5-11.htm">Hosea 5:11</a> Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/6-16.htm">Micah 6:16</a> For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/7-2.htm">Micah 7:2</a> The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.</p><p class="hdg">I only</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/18-4.htm">1 Kings 18:4,20,22</a> For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/20-13.htm">1 Kings 20:13,22,35,41,42</a> And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of Israel, said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great multitude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou mayst know that I am the Lord. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/22-8.htm">1 Kings 22:8</a> And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one man left, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I hate him, for he doth not prophecy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said: Speak not so, O king.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/11-2.htm">Romans 11:2-4</a> God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against Israel? . . . </p><p class="hdg">they seek my life</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/19-2.htm">1 Kings 19:2</a> And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/18-10.htm">1 Kings 18:10,17</a> As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/1_kings/19.htm">The LORD Speaks to Elijah at Horeb</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9</span>And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave. and behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, Elias? <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl">And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.</span><span class="reftext">11</span>And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before the Lord, overthrowing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: but the Lord is not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: but the Lord is not in the earthquake.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/11-3.htm">Romans 11:3</a></span><br />Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars. And I am left alone: and they seek my life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/11-4.htm">Romans 11:4</a></span><br />But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men that have not bowed their knees to Baal.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/11-37.htm">Hebrews 11:37</a></span><br />They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/20-5.htm">Exodus 20:5</a></span><br />Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/34-14.htm">Exodus 34:14</a></span><br />Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is jealous, he is a jealous God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/31-16.htm">Deuteronomy 31:16</a></span><br />And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/18-22.htm">1 Kings 18:22</a></span><br />And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of the Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/18-30.htm">1 Kings 18:30</a></span><br />Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me. And the people coming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken down:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/19-14.htm">1 Kings 19:14</a></span><br />With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/10-16.htm">2 Kings 10:16</a></span><br />And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So he made him ride in his chariot,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/36-26.htm">Jeremiah 36:26</a></span><br />And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_samuel/14-35.htm">Altars</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-15.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-20.htm">Children</a> <a href="/1_kings/11-11.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-18.htm">Forsaken</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-15.htm">Hosts</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-36.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_kings/14-22.htm">Jealous</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-4.htm">Life</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-1.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-10.htm">Seek</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-1.htm">Slain</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-1.htm">Sword</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-30.htm">Thrown</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Altars</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Children</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Forsaken</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Hosts</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Jealous</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Life</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Seek</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Slain</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Sword</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-14.htm">Thrown</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/1_kings/19-10.htm">1 Kings 19:10 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: Almighty alone altars am and are away been broken covenant death down for forsaken God have He hosts I Israel Israelites it kill killed left life LORD me my now of one only prophets put rejected replied said seek sons sword take the they to too torn trying very with your zealous<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-10.htm">OT History: 1 Kings 19:10 He said I have been very jealous (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/19-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 19:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 19:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/19-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 19:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 19:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>