And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Zeal; ordering the idolatrous prophets to be destroyed, (Menochius) which has enkindled the rage of Jezabel against me. I cannot bear to see the general corruption. (Calmet)
Covenant; neglecting circumcision, (Rabbins) and almost the whole law. (Haydock)
Altars. Some had been erected by the prophets, (Estius) as the king would suffer none to go to Jerusalem. (Haydock)
The idolaters threw them down, chap. xviii. 30. Such altars would have been unlawful in Juda. (Calmet)
I alone am left; viz., of the prophets in the kingdom of Israel, or of the ten tribes; for in the kingdom of Juda, religion was at that time in a very flourishing condition, under the kings Asa and Josaphat. And even in Israel there remained several prophets, though not then known to Elias. See chap. xx. 13, 28, 35. (Challoner) (Worthington)
Hebrew repeats I, as ver. 14, and chap. xviii. 22. He might justly fear that those had been destroyed at last, whom Abdias had protected. At any rate, none durst appear in public to assist Elias. (Haydock)
God informs him (ver. 18.) that all is not yet lost.
