1 Kings 18 · Verse 17

1 Kings 18:17

And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
1 Kings 18:17, King James Version

1 Kings 18:17 in other translations

BSBWhen Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”
WEBWhen Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
ASVAnd it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel?
YLTand it cometh to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab saith unto him, ‘Art thou he--the troubler of Israel?'
DARBYAnd it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it thou, the troubler of Israel?
BBEAnd when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?
WebsterAnd it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

What does 1 Kings 18:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 18:17-18
17-18. Art thou he that troubleth Israel--A violent altercation took place. Ahab thought to awe him into submission, but the prophet boldly and undisguisedly told the king that the national calamity was traceable chiefly to his own and his family's patronage and practice of idolatry. But, while rebuking the sins, Elijah paid all due respect to the high rank of the offender. He urged the king to convene, by virtue of his royal mandate, a public assembly, in whose presence it might be solemnly decided which was the troubler of Israel. The appeal could not well be resisted, and Ahab, from whatever motives, consented to the proposal. God directed and overruled the issue.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 18:17-20
One may guess how people stand affected to God, by observing how they stand affected to his people and ministers. It has been the lot of the best and most useful men, like Elijah, to be called and counted the troublers of the land. But those who cause God's judgments do the mischief, not he that foretells them, and warns the nation to repent.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

1 Kings 18:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְהִ֛יvay.Hiand it wasH1961
כִּרְא֥וֹתkir.'otwhen sawH7200
אַחְאָ֖ב'ach.'AvAhabH256
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
אֵלִיָּ֑הוּ'e.li.Ya.huElijahH452
וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
אַחְאָב֙'ach.'AvAhabH256
אֵלָ֔יו'e.Lavto himH413
הַאַתָּ֥הha.'a.Tah¿ youH859
זֶ֖הzeh[is] thisH2088
עֹכֵ֥ר'o.KherO [one who] troublesH5916
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 18:17

  • Joshua 7:25

    And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

  • 1 Kings 21:20

    And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.

  • Acts 16:20

    And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

  • Acts 17:6

    And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

  • Amos 7:10

    Then Amaziah the priest of Beth–el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

  • Acts 24:5

    For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

  • Jeremiah 26:8-9

    Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 38:4

    Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
he that troubleth Israel.
21:20; Jos 7:25; Jer 26:8,9; 38:4; Am 7:10; Ac 16:20; 17:6; 24:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Kings 18:16

    So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

  • 1 Kings 18:17

    And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

  • 1 Kings 18:18

    And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.

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1 Kings 18:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y como Achâb vió á Elías, díjole Achâb: ¿Eres tú el que alborotas á Israel?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il arriva que, quand Achab vit Élie, Achab lui dit: Est-ce bien toi, – celui qui trouble Israël?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und es geschah, als Ahab Elia sah, da sprach Ahab zu ihm: Bist du da, der Israel in Trübsal bringt?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et cum vidisset eum, ait: Tune es ille, qui conturbas Israël?