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1 Kings 18

1 Kings 18:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
from thee, thatw the Spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
shall carry
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
thee whither I know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
not; and so when I come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
and tell
nagad (Hebrew #5046)
properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise
KJV usage: bewray, X certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, X fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, X surely, tell, utter.
Pronounce: naw-gad'
Origin: a primitive root
Ahab
'Ach'ab (Hebrew #256)
from {SI 10251}251{/SI} and 1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon
KJV usage: Ahab.
Pronounce: akh-awb'
Origin: once (by contraction) oEchab (Jer. 29:22) {ekh- awb'}
, and he cannot find
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
thee, he shall slay
harag (Hebrew #2026)
to smite with deadly intent
KJV usage: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), X surely.
Pronounce: haw-rag'
Origin: a primitive root
me: but I thy servant
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
fear
yare' (Hebrew #3372)
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
KJV usage: affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), X see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).
Pronounce: yaw-ray'
Origin: a primitive root
x the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
from my youth
na`uwr (Hebrew #5271)
and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'}; properly, passive participle from 5288 as denominative; (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
KJV usage: childhood, youth.
Pronounce: naw-oor'
Origin: or naur {naw-oor'}
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2 Kings 2:16• 16And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master. Lest peradventure the Spirit of Jehovah hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. (2 Kings 2:16)
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Ezek. 3:12,14• 12{i}And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place!{/i}
 14{i}And the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.{/i} (Ezek. 3:12,14)
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Matt. 4:1• 1{i}Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:{/i} (Matt. 4:1)
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Acts 8:39• 39But when they came up out of the water, [the] Spirit of [the] Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing. (Acts 8:39)
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Prov. 8:13• 13The fear of Jehovah [is] to hate evil:{HR}Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way,{HR}And the froward mouth do I hate. (Prov. 8:13)
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Eccl. 7:18• 18[It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this;{HR}Yea, also from that withdraw not thine hand:{HR}For he that feareth God shall come forth of them all. (Eccl. 7:18)
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Isa. 50:10• 10Who [is] among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and stay upon his God. (Isa. 50:10)

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Ministry on This Verse

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the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Kings 2:11,16• 11And it came to pass as they still went on, and talked, that behold there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
 16And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master. Lest peradventure the Spirit of Jehovah hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. (2 Kings 2:11,16)
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Ezek. 3:12‑14• 12{i}And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place!{/i}
 13{i}—and the sound of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great rushing.{/i}
 14{i}And the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.{/i} (Ezek. 3:12‑14)
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Ezek. 8:3• 3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. (Ezek. 8:3)
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Ezek. 11:24• 24Then the Spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. (Ezek. 11:24)
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Ezek. 37:1• 1The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, (Ezek. 37:1)
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Ezek. 40:1‑2• 1In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the self-same day the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and brought me thither.
 2In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, and upon it was as it were a city on the south. (Ezek. 40:1‑2)
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Matt. 4:1• 1{i}Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:{/i} (Matt. 4:1)
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Acts 8:39• 39But when they came up out of the water, [the] Spirit of [the] Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing. (Acts 8:39)
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2 Cor. 12:2‑3• 2I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such an one caught up to the third heaven.
 3And I know such a man (whether in the body or without the body, I know not: God knoweth), (2 Cor. 12:2‑3)
he shall slay me.
1 Sam. 22:11‑19• 11{i}Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob; and they came all of them to the king.{/i}
 12{i}And Saul said, Hear now, son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.{/i}
 13{i}And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me as a lier-in-wait, as at this day?{/i}
 14{i}And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and has access to thy secret council, and is honourable in thy house?{/i}
 15{i}Was it today that I began to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king charge anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.{/i}
 16{i}And the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.{/i}
 17{i}And the king said to the couriers that stood about him, Turn and put the priests of Jehovah to death; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not inform me. But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.{/i}
 18{i}And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.{/i}
 19{i}And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.{/i} (1 Sam. 22:11‑19)
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Dan. 2:5‑13• 5{i}The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The command is gone forth from me: If ye do not make known unto me the dream, and its interpretation, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.{/i}
 6{i}But if ye show the dream and its interpretation, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour; therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.{/i}
 7{i}They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.{/i}
 8{i}The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the word is gone forth from me;{/i}
 9{i}but if ye do not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you; for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me its interpretation.{/i}
 10{i}The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter; therefore there is no king, however great and powerful, that hath asked such a thing of any scribe, or magician, or Chaldean.{/i}
 11{i}For the thing that the king demandeth is extraordinary, and{/i} there is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
 12{i}For this cause the king was irritated and very wroth, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.{/i}
 13{i}And the decree went forth that the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to slay them.{/i} (Dan. 2:5‑13)
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Matt. 2:16• 16{i}Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.{/i} (Matt. 2:16)
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Acts 12:19• 19But Herod having sought him out without finding [him] examined the guards and commanded [them] to be led away [to execution] , and he went down from Judea unto Caesarea and stayed [there]. (Acts 12:19)
from my youth.
1 Sam. 2:18,26• 18{i}And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, a boy girded with a linen ephod.{/i}
 26But the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with Jehovah, and also with men. (1 Sam. 2:18,26)
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1 Sam. 3:19‑20• 19{i}And Samuel grew, and Jehovah was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground.{/i}
 20{i}And all Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, knew that Samuel was established a prophet of Jehovah.{/i} (1 Sam. 3:19‑20)
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2 Chron. 34:3• 3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. (2 Chron. 34:3)
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Psa. 71:17‑18• 17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth,{HR}And hitherto do I show thy wondrous works.
 18Yea also unto old age and grey hairs,{HR}O God, forsake me not,{HR}Until I declare, thine arm to a generation,{HR}Thy might to every one that is to come. (Psa. 71:17‑18)
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Prov. 8:13• 13The fear of Jehovah [is] to hate evil:{HR}Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way,{HR}And the froward mouth do I hate. (Prov. 8:13)
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Eccl. 7:18• 18[It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this;{HR}Yea, also from that withdraw not thine hand:{HR}For he that feareth God shall come forth of them all. (Eccl. 7:18)
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Isa. 50:10• 10Who [is] among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and stay upon his God. (Isa. 50:10)
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Luke 1:15• 15He shall be great before [the] Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with [the] Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb. (Luke 1:15)
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2 Tim. 3:15• 15and that from a babe thou knowest the sacred writings that are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus. (2 Tim. 3:15)
• When it came to obeying Ahab, Obadiah did not object; but when it came to obeying God, he found objections to His word presented by the prophet. (“Elijah and Obadiah: 1 Kings 18:1-16” by H.L. Rossier)
• This is also the source of the lack of deliverance of souls bound up in this state of things. They are afraid, afraid of the world’s opinion, afraid of difficulties, afraid of death: “He will kill me.” (“Elijah and Obadiah: 1 Kings 18:1-16” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it shall come to pass when I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry thee whither I know not; and when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will kill me; and I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

W. Kelly Translation

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And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I, thy servant, fear Jehovah from my youth.