1 Kings 19:1

1 Kings 19:1-8. Elijah's flight to Horeb (Not in Chronicles)

1. And Ahab told Jezebel The LXX. adds -his wife."

and withal how The construction in the original is here irregular. The words rendered -withal" are omitted in nearly all the Versions. The expression translated -withal how" is exactly the same as that which is rendered -all that" in the previous clause, and does not suit the verb which follows. But it is not easy to explain the repetition with two different verbs, and no doubt the English translation gives the sense which was intended. He told his wife in general -all that" Elijah had done and specially -all, how" he had slain, &c.