1 Kings 17:18

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

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  • 2 Kgs 3:13 : 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel,“Why are you here? Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him,“No, for the LORD is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”
  • Luke 4:34 : 34 “Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are– the Holy One of God.”
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying,“Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
  • John 2:4 : 4 Jesus replied,“Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”
  • 2 Sam 16:10 : 10 But the king said,“What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the LORD has said to him,‘Curse David!’, who can say to him,‘Why have you done this?’”
  • 2 Sam 19:22 : 22 But David said,“What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? You are like my enemy today! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don’t I know that today I am king over Israel?”
  • 1 Kgs 13:1 : 1 Just then a prophet arrived from Judah with the LORD’s message for Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.
  • 1 Kgs 18:9 : 9 Obadiah said,“What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?
  • Gen 42:21-22 : 21 They said to one another,“Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!” 22 Reuben said to them,“Didn’t I say to you,‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”
  • Gen 50:15 : 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said,“What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?”
  • Gen 50:17 : 17 ‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.
  • 1 Sam 16:4 : 4 Samuel did what the LORD told him. When he arrived in Bethlehem, the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They said,“Do you come in peace?”
  • 2 Chr 35:21 : 21 Necho sent messengers to him, saying,“Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.”
  • Job 13:23 : 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
  • Ezek 21:23-24 : 23 But those in Jerusalem will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, but the king of Babylon will accuse them of violations in order to seize them. 24 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says:‘Because you have brought up your own guilt by uncovering your transgressions and revealing your sins through all your actions, for this reason you will be taken by force.
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 Then he cried out with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I implore you by God– do not torment me!”
  • Mark 5:15-17 : 15 They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind– the one who had the“Legion”– and they were afraid. 16 Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs. 17 Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their region.
  • Mark 6:16 : 16 But when Herod heard this, he said,“John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!”
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!”

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    19He said to her,“Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.

    20Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

    21He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”

    22The LORD answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

    23Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said,“See, your son is alive!”

    24The woman said to Elijah,“Now I know that you are a prophet and that the LORD’s message really does come through you.”

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
    84%

    17After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    78%

    9Obadiah said,“What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?

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

    26Now, run to meet her and ask her,‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi,“Everything’s fine.”

    27But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said,“Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The LORD has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”

    28She said,“Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say,‘Don’t mislead me?’”

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

    11As she went to get it, he called out to her,“Please bring me a piece of bread.”

    12She said,“As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”

    13Elijah said to her,“Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make me a small cake and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

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

    36Elisha called to Gehazi and said,“Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so and she came to him. He said to her,“Take your son.”

    37She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying,“Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

    2Elisha said to her,“What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered,“Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    74%

    28Then the king asked her,“What’s your problem?” She answered,“This woman said to me,‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

  • 1 Kgs 18:14
    73%

    14Now you say,‘Go and say to your master,“Elijah is back,”’ but he will kill me.”

  • 2 Sam 14:11
    73%

    11She replied,“In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not add to the killing! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied,“As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

  • 2 Kgs 1:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15The LORD’s angel said to Elijah,“Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down with him to the king.

    16Elijah said to the king,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. Is it because there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek a message? Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.’”

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
    73%

    1Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life,“You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the LORD has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

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

    16He said,“About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said,“No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

    17The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

    18The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

    19He said to his father,“My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“Carry him to his mother.”

    20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.

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

    20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.

    21I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”

  • 2 Kgs 4:14
    72%

    14So he asked Gehazi,“What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied,“She has no son, and her husband is old.”

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    72%

    8The LORD’s message came to him,

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
    72%

    13Elisha said to the king of Israel,“Why are you here? Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him,“No, for the LORD is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

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

    11Now you say,‘Go and say to your master,“Elijah is back.”’

    12But when I leave you, the LORD’s Spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. That would not be fair, because your servant has been a loyal follower of the LORD from my youth.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    72%

    28The LORD’s message came to Elijah the Tishbite,

  • 2 Kgs 4:22
    72%

    22She called to her husband,“Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    72%

    5While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. Gehazi said,“My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
    71%

    30The mother of the child said,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha got up and followed her back.

  • 2 Sam 14:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5The king replied to her,“What do you want?” She answered,“I am a widow; my husband is dead.

    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

    7Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

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

    17When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him,“Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?”

    18Elijah replied,“I have not brought disaster on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the LORD’s commandments and following the Baals.

  • 1 Kgs 21:17
    71%

    17The LORD’S message came to Elijah the Tishbite:

  • 1 Kgs 19:2
    71%

    2Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning,“May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!”

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    71%

    7She went and told the prophet. He said,“Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”

  • 2 Kgs 4:32
    71%

    32When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.

  • 1 Kgs 19:20
    70%

    20He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said,“Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah said to him,“Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”