1 Kings 19:20

World English Bible (2000)

He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." He said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?"

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 8:21-22 : 21 Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." 22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
  • Luke 9:61-62 : 61 Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house." 62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
  • Matt 9:9 : 9 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.
  • Matt 19:27 : 27 Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"
  • Matt 4:20 : 20 They immediately left their nets and followed him.
  • Matt 4:22 : 22 They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

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  • 1 Kgs 19:21
    85%

    21He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

  • 1 Kgs 19:19
    81%

    19So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him.

  • 2 Kgs 2:6
    74%

    6Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." They both went on.

  • 2 Kgs 2:2
    73%

    2Elijah said to Elisha, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel." Elisha said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

  • 2 Kgs 2:4
    72%

    4Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho.

  • 2 Kgs 5:26
    72%

    26He said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

  • 2 Kgs 2:9-16
    8 verses
    72%

    9It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me."

    10He said, "You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so."

    11It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

    12Elisha saw it, and he cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

    13He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

    14He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" When he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha went over.

    15When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

    16They said to him, "See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, "You shall not send them."

  • 1 Kgs 20:9
    72%

    9Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.'" The messengers departed, and brought him back the message.

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
    71%

    30The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.

  • 2 Kgs 2:25
    71%

    25He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 18:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

    12It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

  • 2 Kgs 1:5
    71%

    5The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, "Why is it that you have returned?"

  • 2 Kgs 8:14
    71%

    14Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" He answered, "He told me that you would surely recover."

  • 1 Kgs 13:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I am."

    15Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread."

  • 1 Kgs 13:12
    71%

    12Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 17:18-20
    3 verses
    71%

    18She 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!"

    19He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

    20He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?"

  • 2 Kgs 10:16
    71%

    16He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh." So they made him ride in his chariot.

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
    71%

    15The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, "Go down with him. Don't be afraid of him." He arose, and went down with him to the king.

  • 2 Kgs 4:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

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

    19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
    70%

    9Then [the king] sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down!'"

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
    70%

    13Elisha 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." The king of Israel said to him, "No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    70%

    9He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

  • 2 Kgs 4:22
    70%

    22She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again."

  • 2 Kgs 5:19
    70%

    19He said to him, "Go in peace." So he departed from him a little way.

  • 2 Kgs 1:13
    70%

    13Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, "Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.

  • 2 Kgs 2:18
    70%

    18They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'"

  • 1 Kgs 18:18
    69%

    18He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals.

  • 1 Kgs 19:13
    69%

    13It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

  • 1 Kgs 18:23
    69%

    23Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

  • 2 Kgs 1:11
    69%

    11Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down quickly!'"

  • 1 Kgs 17:23
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 13:23
    69%

    23It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

  • 1 Sam 10:2
    69%

    2When you have departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, 'The donkeys which you went to seek have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, "What shall I do for my son?"'

  • 2 Sam 19:37
    69%

    37Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you."

  • 2 Kgs 1:7
    69%

    7He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?"

  • 1 Kgs 19:15
    69%

    15Yahweh said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

  • 1 Kgs 19:3
    68%

    3When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

  • 2 Kgs 6:13
    68%

    13He said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." It was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."