Romans 11:3

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

"Lord, they have killed Your prophets, and have torn down Your altars. I alone am left, and they seek my life."

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Lord, they have killed thy pphets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Lord, they have killed Your prophets, and torn down Your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Lord,{G2962} they have killed{G615} thy{G4675} prophets,{G4396} they{G2532} have digged down{G2679} thine{G4675} altars;{G2379} and I{G2504} am left{G5275} alone,{G3441} and{G2532} they seek{G2212} my{G3450} life.{G5590}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Lord{G2962}, they have killed{G615}{(G5656)} thy{G4675} prophets{G4396}, and{G2532} digged down{G2679}{(G5656)} thine{G4675} altars{G2379}; and I{G2504} am left{G5275}{(G5681)} alone{G3441}, and{G2532} they seek{G2212}{(G5719)} my{G3450} life{G5590}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Lorde they have kylled thy prophetes and dygged doune thyn alters: and I am lefte only and they seke my lyfe.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    LORDE, they haue slayne thy prophetes, & dydged downe thine altares, and I am lefte ouer onely, and they seke my life?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Lord, they haue killed thy Prophets, and digged downe thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seeke my life?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Saying: Lord, they haue kylled thy prophetes, and dygged downe thyne aulters: and I am left alone, and they seke my lyfe.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!”

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 18:4 : 4 When Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets, hidden them in two caves in groups of fifty, and provided them with bread and water.
  • 1 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Has it not been reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with bread and water.
  • 1 Kgs 18:30-31 : 30 Then Elijah said to all the people, 'Come here to me.' They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD, which had been torn down. 31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, 'Your name shall be Israel.'
  • 1 Kgs 19:10-18 : 10 He replied, 'I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to take my life.' 11 The LORD said, 'Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.' Then a great and powerful wind tore through the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak, went out, and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then a voice came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?' 14 Elijah replied, 'I have been very zealous for the LORD God of Hosts, because the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to take my life.' 15 The LORD said to him, 'Go back the way you came, and go to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Aram.' 16 Anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place. 17 Anyone who escapes the sword of Hazael will be put to death by Jehu, and anyone who escapes the sword of Jehu will be put to death by Elisha. 18 Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.'
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain I have struck your children; they accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.
  • Neh 9:26 : 26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 19:9-11
    3 verses
    84%

    9 There he went into a cave and spent the night. The word of the LORD came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'

    10 He replied, 'I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to take my life.'

    11 The LORD said, 'Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.' Then a great and powerful wind tore through the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

  • 1 Kgs 19:13-14
    2 verses
    83%

    13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak, went out, and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then a voice came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'

    14 Elijah replied, 'I have been very zealous for the LORD God of Hosts, because the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to take my life.'

  • Rom 11:4
    79%

    4 But what was God’s answer to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

  • 1 Kgs 18:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left as a prophet of the LORD, but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

    23 Let two bulls be given to us. Let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and lay it on the wood without setting fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood without setting fire to it.

  • Rom 11:2
    74%

    2 God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 18:36-37
    2 verses
    74%

    36 At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached and said, "LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that You are God in Israel, that I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your command.

    37 Answer me, LORD, answer me, so that this people will know that You, LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back to Yourself.

  • 1 Kgs 18:11-15
    5 verses
    73%

    11 Now you tell me, 'Go and say to your master, Elijah is here!'

    12 But I, your servant, fear that if I leave, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you off to some place I don't know, and when I go to tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me. Yet I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

    13 Has it not been reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with bread and water.

    14 And now you say, 'Go and tell your master, Elijah is here,' and he will kill me!

    15 But Elijah said, "As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, whom I serve, I will show myself to him today."

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    72%

    9 But Obadiah said, "What have I done wrong that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be killed?"

  • Ezek 9:8
    72%

    8 As they were striking, I was left alone. I fell face down and cried out, 'Ah, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in your outpouring of wrath on Jerusalem?'

  • 1 Kgs 19:18
    71%

    18 Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.'

  • 2 Kgs 1:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 A third time, the king sent a captain with fifty men. This third captain approached, fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, 'Man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your eyes.'

    14 He continued, 'Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains and their men. But now, please let my life be valuable in your eyes.'

  • 1 Kgs 19:1-4
    4 verses
    70%

    1 Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

    2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, 'May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I don’t make your life like the life of one of them.'

    3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there.

    4 He went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom tree, sat under it, and prayed that he might die. 'Enough, LORD,' he said. 'Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.'

  • 1 Kgs 18:18
    70%

    18 Elijah replied, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, by abandoning the commandments of the LORD and following the Baals.

  • Jer 11:19-21
    3 verses
    69%

    19 I was like a gentle lamb being led to the slaughter. I did not realize they had plotted against me, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will never be remembered again.’

    20 But, LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously and tests the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.

    21 Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life and say, ‘Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hands.’

  • 2 Kgs 9:7
    69%

    7 You shall strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the LORD's servants shed by Jezebel.

  • Lam 3:11
    69%

    11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 1 Kgs 18:40
    68%

    40 Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal. Do not let any of them escape." So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."

    2 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • Job 1:16
    68%

    16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, 'The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'

  • 1 Kgs 21:20
    68%

    20 Ahab said to Elijah, 'So, have you found me, my enemy?' 'I have found you,' he answered, 'because you have devoted yourself to doing evil in the eyes of the LORD.'

  • 2 Kgs 10:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10 Know, then, that not a word of the LORD will fall to the ground that He spoke concerning the house of Ahab. The LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah."

    11 So Jehu struck down all who remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel—all his great men, close acquaintances, and priests—leaving not a single survivor.

  • 1 Kgs 21:17
    68%

    17 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
    68%

    13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do we have to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." But the king of Israel said to him, "No, because it is the LORD who has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab."

  • 1 Kgs 18:30
    67%

    30 Then Elijah said to all the people, 'Come here to me.' They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD, which had been torn down.

  • Amos 9:1
    67%

    1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said, 'Strike the capitals so that the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people. Those who survive I will kill with the sword; not one of them will flee, not a single one will escape.'

  • 1 Kgs 18:28
    67%

    28 So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed.

  • 2 Kgs 10:17
    67%

    17 When Jehu arrived in Samaria, he struck down all who remained of Ahab’s household in Samaria until he had destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken through Elijah.

  • 2 Sam 1:9
    67%

    9 He said to me, 'Please stand over me and kill me, for I am in agony and my life still lingers in me.'

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    67%

    31 He said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!"

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    67%

    28 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    67%

    8 Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • Jer 8:3
    67%

    3 Death will be preferred to life by all the survivors who remain from this evil family, in all the places where I have driven them, declares the LORD of Hosts.

  • Jonah 4:3
    67%

    3 Now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.