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1 Kings 19:20
1 Kings 19:20 is verse 20 of 1 Kings chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
King James Version
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
World English Bible
Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”
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1 Kings 19:18–21 · Berean Standard Bible
18 Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
19 So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
20 So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
21 So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s equipment, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 4:20And at once they left their nets and followed Him.
Matthew 4:22and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Him.
Matthew 9:9As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
Matthew 19:27“Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will there be for us?”
Matthew 8:21Another of His disciples requested, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
Matthew 8:22But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Luke 9:61Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”
Luke 9:62Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Acts 20:37They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.