1 Kgs 19:18

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Yet I have left. or, Yet I will leave.

Isa 1:9; Isa 10:20-22; Rom 11:4; Rom 11:5

the knees.

Exod 20:5; Isa 49:23; Rom 14:10-12; Phil 2:10

every mouth.

Idolaters often kissed their hand in honour of their idols; and hence the origin of adoration from {ad,} to and {os, oris,} the mouth. Cicero mentions a statue of Hercules, the chin and lips of which were considerably worn by the kissing of his worshippers.

Job 31:27; Ps 2:12; Hos 13:2