2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, |So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!|


In Context

1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, |So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!|

3 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, |It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.|

1 Kings 19:2 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:2So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do [to me,] and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:2And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:2Then Jezebel send a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:2And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, So do the gods to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:2and Jezebel sendeth a messenger unto Elijah, saying, 'Thus doth the gods, and thus do they add, surely about this time to-morrow, I make thy life as the life of one of them.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not your life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.