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1Ki 19:18 (KJV) — Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

1Ki 19:18 (NASB) — "Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him."

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

Yet I have left	or, Yet I will leave. Isa 1:9; Isa 10:20-22; Rom 11:4,5
the knees	Exd 20:5; Isa 49:23; Rom 14:10-12; Phl 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; Psa 2:12; Hsa 13:2