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1 Kings 19:18

The New Testament’s use of 1 Kings

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Yet will I leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Rom 11:1-10

Formula-cited divine answer (v.4): 'I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.' Verbatim of the LORD's reply to Elijah; the foundational proof-text for Paul's doctrine of a preserved remnant 'according to the election of grace' (v.5).

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Rev 11:11–14 ?

The 'seven thousand' Elijah is told remain faithful — possibly inverted in Rev's 'seven thousand people were killed,' a deliberate reversal of the Elijah remnant number. Numerically distinctive enough to register; contested as intentional.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in 1 Kings 19
1 Kings 19:1-2 21 Kings 19:5-8 41 Kings 19:8 21 Kings 19:10 111 Kings 19:11 31 Kings 19:14 21 Kings 19:19-21 4