1 Kings 19:18
Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
Note Cited in Romans 11:4
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
Note I have…: or, I will leave
Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Yet will I leave me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Yet I have left
- or, Yet I will leave.
- Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 10:20–22; Romans 11:4, 5
- the knees
- Exodus 20:5; Isaiah 49:23; Romans 14:10–12; Philippians 2:10
- every mouth
- Idolaters often kissed their hand in honour of their idols; and hence the origin of adoration from {ad,} to and {os, oris,} the mouth. Cicero mentions a statue of Hercules, the chin and lips of which were considerably worn by the kissing of his worshippers.
- Job 31:27; Psalm 2:12; Hosea 13:2