1 Kings 17:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to remind me of my sin, and to kill my son?

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, man of God? Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?"

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And she said{H559} unto Elijah,{H452} What have I to do with thee, O thou man{H376} of God?{H430} thou art come{H935} unto me to bring{H2142} my sin{H5771} to remembrance,{H2142} and to slay{H4191} my son!{H1121}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And she said{H559}{(H8799)} unto Elijah{H452}, What have I to do with thee, O thou man{H376} of God{H430}? art thou come{H935}{(H8804)} unto me to call{H2142} my sin{H5771} to remembrance{H2142}{(H8687)}, and to slay{H4191}{(H8687)} my son{H1121}?

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And she sayde vnto Elias: What haue I to do with the, thou man of God? Art thou come in vnto me, yt my synne shulde be kepte in remembraunce, & that my sonne shulde be slayne?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And she said vnto Eliiah, What haue I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come vnto me to call my sinne to remembrance, and to slay my sonne?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And she said vnto Elias: What haue I to do with thee O thou man of God? Art thou come vnto me to call my sinne againe to remembraunce, and to slay my sonne?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And she saith unto Elijah, `What -- to me and to thee, O man of God? thou hast come unto me to cause mine iniquity to be remembered, and to put my son to death!'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? thou art come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son!

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? thou art come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son!

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?

  • World English Bible (2000)

    She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 3:13 : 13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."
  • Luke 4:34 : 34 saying, Let us alone; what do we have to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are; the Holy One of God.
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
  • John 2:4 : 4 Jesus said to her, Woman, what does your concern have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.
  • 2 Sam 16:10 : 10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD has said to him, Curse David. Who then shall say, Why have you done so?
  • 2 Sam 19:22 : 22 And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries unto me? Shall any man be put to death this day in Israel? For do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
  • 1 Kgs 13:1 : 1 And, behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
  • 1 Kgs 18:9 : 9 And he said, What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
  • Gen 42:21-22 : 21 And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us. 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and you would not listen? therefore, behold, his blood is now required.
  • Gen 50:15 : 15 And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly repay us all the evil that we did unto him.
  • Gen 50:17 : 17 So shall you say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray you now, the trespass of your brothers, and their sin, for they did unto you evil, and now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.
  • 1 Sam 16:4 : 4 And Samuel did what the LORD spoke, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Do you come peaceably?
  • 2 Chr 35:21 : 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, 'What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I do not come against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. For God commanded me to make haste. Refrain from interfering with God, who is with me, so that He does not destroy you.'
  • Job 13:23 : 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
  • Ezek 21:23-24 : 23 And it shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. 24 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you by God, do not torment me.
  • Mark 5:15-17 : 15 And they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been possessed with the demon, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. 16 And those who saw it told them how it happened to him who had been possessed with the demon, and also concerning the pigs. 17 And they began to beg him to depart out of their region.
  • Mark 6:16 : 16 But when Herod heard of it, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded; he is risen from the dead.
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of God most high? I beg you, torment me not.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 17:19-24
    6 verses
    84%

    19 And he said to her, Give me your son. And he took him out of her arms, and carried him up into the loft where he stayed, and laid him upon his own bed.

    20 And he cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, have You also brought calamity upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

    21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray, let this child's soul come back to him again.

    22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back to him again, and he revived.

    23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother: and Elijah said, See, your son lives.

    24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
    84%

    17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    78%

    9 And he said, What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

  • 2 Kgs 4:26-28
    3 verses
    75%

    26 Run now, I pray you, to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

    27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.

    28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

  • 1 Kgs 17:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

    11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Please, bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.

    12 And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I do not have a cake, but only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

    13 And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you have said: but make a little cake for me first, and bring it to me, and afterward, make some for you and your son.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
    2 verses
    75%

    36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, Take up your son.

    37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves.

    2 And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house? And she said, Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a pot of oil.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    74%

    28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

  • 1 Kgs 18:14
    73%

    14 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

  • 2 Sam 14:11
    73%

    11 Then she said, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, that you would not allow the avenger of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

  • 2 Kgs 1:15-16
    2 verses
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    15 And the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, Go down with him; do not be afraid of him. So he arose and went down with him to the king.

    16 And he said to him, Thus says the LORD, Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore, you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but shall surely die.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
    73%

    1 Then Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go you and your household, and stay wherever you can stay: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land for seven years."

  • 2 Kgs 4:16-20
    5 verses
    72%

    16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.

    17 And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that Elisha had said to her, according to the time of life.

    18 And when the child was grown, it happened one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

    19 And he said to his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

    20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

    21 And when I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I had borne.

  • 2 Kgs 4:14
    72%

    14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Truly she has no child, and her husband is old.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
    72%

    13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."

  • 1 Kgs 18:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

    12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry you where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he shall slay me: but I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:22
    72%

    22 And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray you, one of the young men, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    72%

    5 And it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
    71%

    30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And he arose, and followed her.

  • 2 Sam 14:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

    6 And your maidservant had two sons, and the two fought together in the field, and there was none to separate them, but one struck the other, and killed him.

    7 And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 18:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Are you he who troubles Israel?

    18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you and your father's house have, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and you have followed Baalim.

  • 1 Kgs 21:17
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 19:2
    71%

    2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    71%

    7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your children live on the rest.

  • 2 Kgs 4:32
    71%

    32 And when Elisha came into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

  • 1 Kgs 19:20
    70%

    20 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. And he said to him, Go back again, for what have I done to you?