Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The LORD—he is God! The LORD—he is God!” New Living Translation And when all the people saw it, they fell face down on the ground and cried out, “The LORD—he is God! Yes, the LORD is God!” English Standard Version And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.” Berean Standard Bible When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!” King James Bible And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. New King James Version Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!” New American Standard Bible When all the people saw this, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God!” NASB 1995 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.” NASB 1977 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.” Legacy Standard Bible And all the people saw it and fell on their faces and said, “Yahweh, He is God; Yahweh, He is God.” Amplified Bible When all the people saw it, they fell face downward; and they said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!” Christian Standard Bible When all the people saw it, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, he is God! The LORD, he is God! ” Holman Christian Standard Bible When all the people saw it, they fell facedown and said, “Yahweh, He is God! Yahweh, He is God!” American Standard Version And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Jehovah, he is God; Jehovah, he is God. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And all the people saw and they fell on their faces, and they said: “LORD JEHOVAH is God! LORD JEHOVAH is God!” Brenton Septuagint Translation And all the people fell upon their faces, and said, Truly the Lord is God; he is God. Contemporary English Version When the crowd saw what had happened, they all bowed down and shouted, "The LORD is God! The LORD is God!" Douay-Rheims Bible And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord he is God, the Lord he is God. English Revised Version And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God. GOD'S WORD® Translation All the people saw it and immediately bowed down to the ground. "The LORD is God!" they said. "The LORD is God!" Good News Translation When the people saw this, they threw themselves on the ground and exclaimed, "The LORD is God; the LORD alone is God!" International Standard Version When all the people saw what had happened, they fell flat on their faces and cried out "The LORD is God! The LORD is God!" JPS Tanakh 1917 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.' Literal Standard Version And all the people see, and fall on their faces, and say, “YHWH, He [is] the God! YHWH, He [is] the God!” Majority Standard Bible When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!” New American Bible Seeing this, all the people fell prostrate and said, “The LORD is God! The LORD is God!” NET Bible When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, "The LORD is the true God! The LORD is the true God!" New Revised Standard Version When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The LORD indeed is God; the LORD indeed is God.” New Heart English Bible And when all the people saw it, they fell facedown and said, "The LORD, he is God. The LORD, he is God." Webster's Bible Translation And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. World English Bible When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!” Young's Literal Translation And all the people see, and fall on their faces, and say, 'Jehovah, He is the God, Jehovah, He is the God.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Elijah's Prayer…38Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench. 39When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!” 40Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.… Cross References Leviticus 9:24 Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown. 1 Kings 8:60 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other! 1 Kings 18:21 Then Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him." But the people did not answer a word. 1 Kings 18:24 Then you may call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The God who answers by fire, He is God." And all the people answered, "What you say is good." Ezra 1:3 Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem. Psalm 100:3 Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. Psalm 118:27 The LORD is God; He has made His light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. Treasury of Scripture And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. they fell Judges 13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. 1 Chronicles 21:16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 2 Chronicles 7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. The Lord 1 Kings 18:21,24 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word… John 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Jump to Previous Cried Faces Fall Fell ProstrateJump to Next Cried Faces Fall Fell Prostrate1 Kings 18 1. In the extremity of famine Elijah, sent to Ahab, meets good Obadiah9. 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 (39) They fell on their faces.--Exactly as in Leviticus 9:24, at the inauguration of the sacrifices of the new Tabernacle by the fire from heaven, with the characteristic addition of the cry, "Jehovah; He, and He only, is God."Verse 39. - And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces [As in Leviticus 9:24; 2 Chronicles 7:3; cf. Numbers 22:31; Joshua 5:14; Revelation 11:16. They recognized in the fire, that is to say, the token of the Divine Presence]: and they said, The Lord [Jehovah. The connexion of this verse with the three verses preceding is obscured by our translation], he is the God; the Lord, he is the God. [The echo of ver. 24. The Hebrew words are the same. Stanley remarks that it is as if (by a slight inversion) they turned "the name of the prophet himself into a war-cry, 'Eli-Jah-hu.'"] Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew When allכָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every the people הָעָ֔ם (hā·‘ām) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock saw this, וַיַּרְא֙ (way·yar) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7200: To see they fell וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ (way·yip·pə·lū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5307: To fall, lie facedown עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against and said, וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (way·yō·mə·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 559: To utter, say “The LORD, יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel He ה֣וּא (hū) Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are is God! הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative The LORD, יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel He ה֥וּא (hū) Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are is God!” הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative Links 1 Kings 18:39 NIV1 Kings 18:39 NLT 1 Kings 18:39 ESV 1 Kings 18:39 NASB 1 Kings 18:39 KJV 1 Kings 18:39 BibleApps.com 1 Kings 18:39 Biblia Paralela 1 Kings 18:39 Chinese Bible 1 Kings 18:39 French Bible 1 Kings 18:39 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Kings 18:39 When all the people saw it they (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) |