Elijah’s Prayer
1 Kings 18:39
In 11 translations
- BSB
- When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!”
- KJV
- And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
- WEB
- When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”
- ASV
- And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Jehovah, he is God; Jehovah, he is God.
- LSV
- And all the people see, and fall on their faces, and say, “YHWH, He [is] the God! YHWH, He [is] the God!”
- YLT
- And all the people see, and fall on their faces, and say, 'Jehovah, He [is] the God, Jehovah, He [is] the God.'
- DBY
- And all the people saw [it], and they fell on their faces and said, Jehovah, he is God! Jehovah, he is God!ElohimElohim
- DRC
- And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord he is God, the Lord he is God.
- GNV
- And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces, and saide, The Lord is God, the Lord is God.
- JPS
- And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.'
- LXXE
- And all the people fell upon their faces, and said, Truly the Lord is God; he is God.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיַּרְא֙ כָּל־הָעָ֔ם וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ עַל־פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ יְהוָה֙ ה֣וּא הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים יְהוָ֖ה ה֥וּא הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἔπεσε πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν, καὶ εἶπον, ἀληθῶς Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς αὐτὸς ὁ Θεός.
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Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Kings 18:24Then you may call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The God who answers by fire, He is God.” And all the people answered, “What you say is good.”
- 2 Chronicles 7:3When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is…
- 1 Kings 18:21Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.
- Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
- Judges 13:20When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
- 1 Chronicles 21:16When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
- Acts 4:16“What shall we do with these men?” they asked. “It is clear to everyone living in Jerusalem that a remarkable miracle has occurred through them, and we cannot deny it.
- John 5:35John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.
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