Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Yet I have left me ... - Rather, as in the margin. "Seven thousand" faithful Israelites shall survive all the persecutions of Ahab and Jezebel, and carry down the worship of Yahweh to another generation. Elijah is mistaken in supposing that he only is left. The number is manifestly a "round" number, not an exact estimate. Perhaps it is, moreover, a mystical or symbolic number. Compare Revelation 7:5-8. Of all the symbolic numbers used in Scripture, seven is the most common.
Every mouth which hath not kissed him - Idolaters sometimes kissed the hand to the object of their worship Job 31:26-27; at other times they kissed the actual image (marginal reference).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 19:18:
Job 31:27
Psalms 2:12
Isaiah 45:23
Hosea 13:1
Hosea 13:2
Amos 2:11
Romans 11:2
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