1 Reyes 18:10

10 Vive el SEÑOR tu Dios, que no hay nación ni reino adonde mi señor no haya enviado a buscarte; y cuando decían: "No está aquí", hacía jurar al reino o a la nación que no te habían hallado.

1 Reyes 18:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 18:10

As the Lord thy God liveth
Which is the form of an oath he thought fit to make, to ascertain the truth of what he was about to say: there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek
thee;
which is either an hyperbolical expression, signifying he had sought for him in many places, and in every place he could think of; or it must be understood either of the ten tribes, which were as so many nations and kingdoms as they had been; or were more in the times of the Canaanites; or of the nations round about, that were in alliance with or tributary to the king of Israel: and when they said, he is not there, he took an oath of the kingdom and
nation that they found thee not;
which he might exact of his own subjects, but could not of other nations, unless they were free to it of themselves; or he might take it of their ambassadors or merchants that came into his land, of whom he inquired, and adjured them to tell him the truth.

1 Reyes 18:10 In-Context

8 Y él le respondió: Yo soy. Ve, di a tu señor: "Aquí está Elías."

9 Y él dijo: ¿Qué pecado he cometido, que entregas a tu siervo en manos de Acab para que me mate?

10 Vive el SEÑOR tu Dios, que no hay nación ni reino adonde mi señor no haya enviado a buscarte; y cuando decían: "No está aquí", hacía jurar al reino o a la nación que no te habían hallado.

11 Y ahora dices: "Ve, di a tu señor: 'Aquí está Elías.'"

12 Y sucederá que cuando te deje, el Espíritu del SEÑOR te llevará adonde yo no sepa; así que cuando yo vaya y se lo diga a Acab y él no pueda encontrarte, me matará, aunque yo tu siervo he temido al SEÑOR desde mi juventud.