1 Kings 18:39
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.

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

Majority Standard Bible
When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He 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 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!”
Literal Translations
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!”

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.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And all the people will see and fall upon their face, and say, Jehovah, he is God; Jehovah he is God.
Catholic Translations
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And when all the people had seen it, they fell upon their face, and they said: “The Lord himself is God! The Lord himself is God!”

New American Bible
Seeing this, all the people fell prostrate and said, “The LORD is God! The LORD 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.”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
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.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And all the people saw and they fell on their faces, and they said: “LORD JEHOVAH is God! LORD JEHOVAH is God!”
OT Translations
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.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And all the people fell upon their faces, and said, Truly the Lord is God; he is 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
Exodus 20:3
You shall have no other gods before Me.

Deuteronomy 4:35
You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

Joshua 24:14-15
Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. / But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

2 Kings 17:36
Instead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him.

2 Kings 19:15-19
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. / Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God. / Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands. ...

Psalm 86:10
For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God.

Isaiah 37:16
“O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Isaiah 45:5-6
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me, / so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 10:10
But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

Daniel 3:28-29
Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. / Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”

Matthew 4:10
“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

Matthew 22:37
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

Mark 12:29-30
Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. / Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Luke 4:8
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”


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?

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When all the people saw this
This phrase captures a pivotal moment of revelation and recognition. The Hebrew root for "saw" is "ra'ah," which implies not just physical sight but also understanding and perceiving. In the context of 1 Kings 18, this refers to the miraculous event on Mount Carmel where God answered Elijah's prayer by sending fire from heaven. Historically, this was a time of rampant idolatry in Israel, with the worship of Baal being prevalent. The people's "seeing" is both literal and metaphorical, as they witness the undeniable power of the true God, contrasting sharply with the impotence of Baal.

they fell facedown
The act of falling facedown is a profound expression of worship, humility, and submission. In Hebrew culture, prostration was a common response to divine encounters, signifying reverence and acknowledgment of God's supreme authority. This physical act underscores the people's recognition of their sin in following false gods and their return to the worship of Yahweh. It is a moment of collective repentance and acknowledgment of God's sovereignty.

and said, 'The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!'
The repetition of this declaration emphasizes its importance and the depth of conviction among the people. The Hebrew name for "LORD" here is "Yahweh," the covenant name of God, which signifies His eternal, self-existent nature. By proclaiming "He is God," the people are affirming Yahweh's unique divinity and rejecting the false gods they had previously worshiped. This confession is a turning point, a return to the foundational truth of Israel's faith. It echoes the Shema, a central declaration of Jewish faith found in Deuteronomy 6:4, "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one." This moment is not just a personal revelation but a national reawakening to the truth of God's identity and power.

(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 all
כָּל־ (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


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