1 Kings 18:19

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֗ה שְׁלַ֨ח קְבֹ֥ץ אֵלַ֛י אֶת־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־הַ֣ר הַכַּרְמֶ֑ל וְאֶת־נְבִיאֵ֨י הַבַּ֜עַל אַרְבַּ֧ע מֵא֣וֹת וַחֲמִשִּׁ֗ים וּנְבִיאֵ֤י הָֽאֲשֵׁרָה֙ אַרְבַּ֣ע מֵא֔וֹת אֹכְלֵ֖י שֻׁלְחַ֥ן אִיזָֽבֶל׃

Transliteration

wə-ʿattâ šəlaḥ qəbōṣ to-me ʾet-all-yiśrāʾēl to-har the-karmel and-ʾet-nəbîʾê the-baʿal four mēʾôt and-fifty and-nəbîʾê the-ʾăšērâ four mēʾôt ʾōkəlê šulḥan ʾîzābel

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʿattâ*: conjunction + adverb - and now
• *šəlaḥ*: Qal imperative, masculine singular of *šālaḥ* - send
• *qəbōṣ*: Qal imperative, masculine singular of *qābaṣ* - gather
• *ʾēlay*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - to me
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun, masculine - Israel
• *ʾel*: preposition - to
• *har*: noun, masculine singular construct - mountain of
• *ha-karmel*: definite article + proper noun - Carmel
• *wə-ʾet*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *nəbîʾê*: noun, masculine plural construct - prophets of
• *ha-baʿal*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the Baal
• *ʾarbaʿ*: number, cardinal - four
• *mēʾôt*: hundreds/hundred
• *wa-ḥămiššîm*: conjunction + number, cardinal - and fifty
• *û-nəbîʾê*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and prophets of
• *hā-ʾăšērâ*: definite article + proper noun, feminine singular - the Asherah
• *ʾōkəlê*: Qal participle, masculine plural construct of *ʾākal* - eaters of
• *šulḥan*: noun, masculine singular construct - table of
• *ʾîzābel*: proper noun, feminine - Jezebel

Word Meanings

• *qəbōṣ*: gather/assemble/collect
• *ʾăšērâ*: Asherah (fertility goddess)/sacred pole/sacred tree
• *šulḥan*: table/food provision/royal service

Referenced Verses

• Josh 19:26 : 26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
• 1 Kgs 16:33 : 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
• 2 Kgs 2:25 : 25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
• 2 Kgs 9:22 : 22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
• 2 Kgs 13:6 : 6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
• Jer 46:18 : 18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
• Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
• Amos 9:3 : 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
• 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
• Rev 2:20 : 20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
• 1 Kgs 18:22 : 22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
• 1 Kgs 18:42-43 : 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, 43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
• 1 Kgs 19:1-2 : 1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
• 1 Kgs 22:6 : 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
• 1 Sam 15:12 : 12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
• 1 Kgs 15:13 : 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.