1 Kings 21:21

and will take away thy posterity R.V. and will utterly sweep thee away. See above on 1 Kings 14:10, where this verse occurs in substance.

and left in Israel R.V. and him that is left at large. The expression is a proverbial one, meant to indicate all men of every kind. Perhaps its origin is in the idea of -bondmen and free" or it may have been -the young, who were not their own masters, and the old who were at liberty to choose their own way." The expression recalls Deuteronomy 32:36.