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1 Kings 19:141Kgs.19.14

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il répondit: J'ai déployé mon zèle pour l'Eternel, le Dieu des armées; car les enfants d'Israël ont abandonné ton alliance, ils ont renversé tes autels, et ils ont tué par l'épée tes prophètes; je suis resté, moi seul, et ils cherchent à m'ôter la vie.

KJV

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 160 (Migne)

    ut staret in bello in die Domini (Ezech. XIII, 5) , Lambertus solus, zelo zelatus pro domo Domini (III Reg. XIX, 14) , opportune, importune arguebat principem (II Tim. IV, 2) , et alterum se Eliam, vel Joannem exhibebat. Quod animi habebat Herodias, cum Herodes Joanni, eum pro…

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