 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 356 pages
...in of the 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...am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."* The second is the winding np of that wonderful comparison and contrast of the law and the gospel, which... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 242 pages
...faithful in his day. " The children of Israel," saith he, " have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword ; and...am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."* But what saith the answer of God to him ? "I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which... | |
 | 1829 - 424 pages
...abolished. We see what came to pass in the days of the prophet Elijah : he saith, 1 Kings xix. 14. "The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away." But the Lord reproveth him, by telling him that he hath yet seven thousand in Israel, who have not... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1829 - 442 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. And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1829 - 742 pages
...circumstances require. Elijab despondingly replied, " I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...sword ; and I, even I only, am left and they seek to take away my Kfe'." We are too apt, like Elijah, to yield to sinful discouragements, and to make... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1830 - 210 pages
...abolished. We see what came to pass in the days of the prophet Elijah : he saith, 1 Kings xix. 14. "The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." But the Lord reproveth him, by telling him that he hath yet seven thousand in Israel, who have not... | |
 | Francis Geach Crossman - 1830 - 366 pages
...should have been that of Elijah when he came before the Lord God of Hosts with this lamentation, " The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...prophets with the sword, and I, even I, only am left." But God soon caused him to shake off this unbecoming spirit, by declaring, that he had not left himself... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 444 pages
...resent, and bewail his case ? No, for ' I have,' said he, ' been very jealous for the Lord of hosts ; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,...am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.' What was the case of Jeremy ? ' 1,' saith he, ' was a derision to all my people, and their song all... | |
 | 1831 - 930 pages
...doest thou here, Elijah 1 10 And he said, I "have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for people favour in the sight of the Egyptians : and awav. 1 1 And fie said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. Arid behold, the LORD passed... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...pass at the seventh time, that [grael have forsaken Uiy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slam thy prophets with the sword ; and I, even I only,...they seek my life, to take it away. 15 And the LORD paid unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness nf Damascus: and when thoiicomest, anoint Ha/.acl... | |
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And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for 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. 
