JMNT(i)
2 God does not (or: did not)
thrust away His people – whom He by experience intimately foreknew! Or have you not seen, and thus perceive, in [
the passage of]
Elijah, what the Scripture is saying as he is repeatedly encountering in God (or: hitting on target when conversing with God),
concerning the sphere and condition of (or: down against)
Israel?
3 "O Lord [= O Yahweh],
they kill Your prophets! They dig down under (thus: undermine to demolish)
Your altars! And as for me, I was left under, alone (or: I'm the only one left below),
and they continually seek (are continuously trying to find)
my soul (my breath; = they want to kill me).
" [1 King 19:10, 14]
4 To the contrary, what does the useful transaction (the deliberative instruction; the oracle)
say to him? "I leave down (or: reserve)
to Myself (for Myself; in Myself) [other MSS: They have been leaving for Myself]
seven thousand adult males, those men who do not bend a knee to Baal." [
1 Kings 19:18]
5 Thus then, also, within the present season (or: In this way, therefore, even in the current appropriate situation and in union with the present fertile moment)
a destitute remainder (or: a forsaken minority under the effect of lack; a left-behind surviving group; a worn-smooth, plain, inferior, unsculptured, unembossed part; a remnant)
has been birthed (has come to be and exists)
down from a selection of grace (in accord with an election which is grace and a choosing-out for favor).