◄ 1 Kings 18:39 ►
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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!"

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.”

Contemporary English Version
When the crowd saw what had happened, they all bowed down and shouted, "The LORD is God! The LORD is God!"

New American Bible
Seeing this, all the people fell prostrate and said, “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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

they fell

Judges 13:20 And when the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended also in the same. And when Manue and his wife saw this, they fell flat on the ground;

1 Chronicles 21:16 And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in haircloth, fell down flat on the ground.

2 Chronicles 7:3 Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with their faces to the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the Lord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.

The Lord

1 Kings 18:21,24 And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word. . . .

John 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

Acts 2:37 Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren?

Acts 4:16 Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath been done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is manifest: and we cannot deny it.

Context
Elijah's Prayer
…38Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 39And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.40And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.…
Cross References
Leviticus 9:24
And, behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.

1 Kings 8:60
That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

1 Kings 18:21
And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.

1 Kings 18:24
Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name of my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God. And all the people answering, said: A very good proposal.

Ezra 1:3
Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him. Let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem.

Psalm 100:3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 118:27
The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.

1 Kings 18:38
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