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1 Kings 18:101Kgs.18.10

[As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

L'Eternel est vivant! il n'est ni nation ni royaume où mon maître n'ait envoyé pour te chercher; et quand on disait que tu n'y étais pas, il faisait jurer le royaume et la nation que l'on ne t'avait pas trouvé.

KJV

[As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew

    he Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee,” [ 1 Ki 18:10 ] meaning that be had been sought in the countries round about Judaea. Accordingly we might suppose many and dense clouds to have been brought together over Jerusalem a…

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