1 Kings 19:10

New American Bible - revised edition

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.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:10

As the Lord, your God, lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you. When they replied, ‘He is not here,’ he made each kingdom and nation swear they could not find you.

1 Kings 18:17

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it you, you disturber of Israel?”

1 Kings 18:20

So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and had the prophets gather on Mount Carmel.

1 Kings 18:22

So Elijah said to the people, “I am the only remaining prophet of the Lord, and there are four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal.

1 Kings 18:30

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” When they drew near to him, he repaired the altar of the Lord which had been destroyed.

1 Kings 18:4

When Jezebel was slaughtering the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them away by fifties in caves, and supplied them with food and water.

1 Kings 19:14

He replied, “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.”

1 Kings 19:2

Jezebel then sent a messenger to Elijah and said, “May the gods do thus to me and more, if by this time tomorrow I have not done with your life what was done to each of them.”

1 Kings 20:13

Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said: “The Lord says, Do you see all this vast army? Today I am giving it into your power, that you may know that I am the Lord.”

1 Kings 20:22

Then the prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him: “Go, regroup your forces. Understand clearly what you must do, for at the turning of the year the king of Aram will attack you.”

1 Kings 20:35

Acting on the word of the Lord, one of the guild prophets said to his companion, “Strike me.” But he refused to strike him.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel answered, “There is one other man through whom we might consult the Lord; but I hate him because he prophesies not good but evil about me. He is Micaiah, son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say that.”

2 Kings 10:16

and said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord.” And they took him along in his chariot. Slaughter of the Worshipers of Baal.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Psalm 119:126

It is time for the Lord to act; they have disobeyed your law.

Psalm 119:139

I am consumed with rage, because my foes forget your words.

Psalm 119:26

I disclosed my ways and you answered me; teach me your statutes.

Psalm 69:9

I have become an outcast to my kindred, a stranger to my mother’s children.

Psalm 78:37

Their hearts were not constant toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;

Exodus 34:14

You shall not bow down to any other god, for the Lord—“Jealous” his name—is a jealous God.

Isaiah 49:4

Though I thought I had toiled in vain, for nothing and for naught spent my strength, Yet my right is with the Lord, my recompense is with my God.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 36:26

He commanded Jerahmeel, a royal prince, and Seraiah, son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch, the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord had hidden them away.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by judgment, for he has willingly gone after filth!

Micah 6:16

You have kept the decrees of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; Therefore I will deliver you up to ruin, and your citizens to derision; and you shall bear the reproach of the nations.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

Numbers 25:11

Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger from the Israelites by his being as jealous among them as I am; that is why I did not put an end to the Israelites in my jealousy.

Numbers 25:13

which shall be for him and for his descendants after him the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous on behalf of his God and thus made expiation for the Israelites.

John 2:17

His disciples recalled the words of scripture, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, Soon you will be at rest with your ancestors, and then this people will prostitute themselves by following the foreign gods among whom they will live in the land they are about to enter. They will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, sawed in two, put to death at sword’s point; they went about in skins of sheep or goats, needy, afflicted, tormented.