18 Yet will (A)I leave seven thousand in Israel: even [a]all the knees that have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth that hath not kissed him.

19 ¶ So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and was with the twelfth: and Elijah went towards him, and cast his mantel upon him.

20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, [b]Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. Who answered him, Go, return: for what have I done to thee?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 19:18 He declareth that wicked dissemblers and idolaters are not his.
  2. 1 Kings 19:20 Though this natural affection is not to be contemned, yet it ought not to move us when God calleth us to serve him.

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