1 Kings 18:14
New International Version
And now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’ He will kill me!”

New Living Translation
And now you say, ‘Go and tell your master, “Elijah is here.”’ Sir, if I do that, Ahab will certainly kill me.”

English Standard Version
And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; and he will kill me.”

Berean Standard Bible
And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”

King James Bible
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

New King James Version
And now you say, ‘Go, tell your master, “Elijah is here.” ’ He will kill me!”

New American Standard Bible
Yet now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; he will then kill me!”

NASB 1995
“And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here"’ he will then kill me.”

NASB 1977
“And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; he will then kill me.”

Legacy Standard Bible
So now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; he will then kill me.”

Amplified Bible
And now you are saying, ‘Go, tell your master, “Elijah is here”’; and he will kill me.”

Christian Standard Bible
Now you say, ‘Go tell your lord, “Elijah is here! ” ’ He will kill me! ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now you say, ‘Go tell your lord, “Elijah is here!"’ He will kill me!”

American Standard Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And now you say to me: ‘Go say to your Lord, Behold, Elyah!’ and he will kill me!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And now thou sayest to me, Go, say to thy master, Behold, Eliu is here: and he shall slay me.

Contemporary English Version
Do you really want me to tell Ahab you're here? He will kill me!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now thou sayest: Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.

English Revised Version
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah: is here: and he shall slay me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Now you say that I should tell my master that Elijah is here. He will kill me."

Good News Translation
So how can you order me to go and tell the king that you are here? He will kill me!"

International Standard Version
Now you're saying, 'Go tell your master, "Elijah's here!"' He's sure to kill me!"

JPS Tanakh 1917
And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.'

Literal Standard Version
And now you are saying, Go, say to my lord, Behold, Elijah—and he has slain me!”

Majority Standard Bible
And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”

New American Bible
And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord: Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”

NET Bible
Now you say, 'Go and say to your master, "Elijah is back,"' but he will kill me."

New Revised Standard Version
Yet now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord that Elijah is here’; he will surely kill me.”

New Heart English Bible
Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Look, Elijah is here";' and he will kill me."

Webster's Bible Translation
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he will slay me.

World English Bible
Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”

Young's Literal Translation
and now thou art saying, Go, say to my lord, Lo, Elijah -- and he hath slain me!'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Elijah Confronts Ahab
13Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water. 14And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!” 15Then Elijah said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to Ahab today.”…

Cross References
1 Kings 18:13
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.

1 Kings 18:15
Then Elijah said, "As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to Ahab today."


Treasury of Scripture

And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

and he shall slay me

Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

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1 Kings 18
1. In the extremity of famine Elijah, sent to Ahab, meets good Obadiah
9. Obadiah brings Ahab to Elijah
17. Elijah, reproving Ahab, by fire from heaven convinces Baal's prophets
41. Elijah, by prayer obtaining rain, follows Ahab to Jezreel














Verse 14. - And now thou sayest [ = "This is to be the reward of my devotion, is it?"], GO, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah Is here: and he shall slay me.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And now
וְעַתָּה֙ (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

you
אַתָּ֣ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

say,
אֹמֵ֔ר (’ō·mêr)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘Go
לֵ֛ךְ (lêḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

tell
אֱמֹ֥ר (’ĕ·mōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

your lord
לַֽאדֹנֶ֖יךָ (la·ḏō·ne·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 113: Sovereign, controller

that Elijah
אֵלִיָּ֑הוּ (’ê·lî·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 452: Elijah -- 'Yah is God', a well-known prophet of Israel, also three other Israelites

is here!’
הִנֵּ֣ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

He will kill me!”
וַהֲרָגָֽנִי׃ (wa·hă·rā·ḡā·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 2026: To smite with deadly intent


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