 | William Phelan - 1827 - 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 tp AD the condition and prospects of his... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...in of the cave. And, behold, there came 1 a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah ? And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord...altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and 1, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto him, Go, return... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1829 - 1012 pages
...a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 14 And he said, I have been very jea lous for the LORD God of hosts : because the children of...altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, ег-еп I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 15 And the LORD said unto him, Go,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...entering 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...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... | |
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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. 
