I have been very jealous] Heb. being jealous, I am jealous. Of jealousie, see Chap. 14. 22. Hereby he seweth that Gods honour was as tender to him, as a wives honestie to an husband. So Numbers 25:11. Psalms 69:10. thine altars] Such altars as in former times had been erected to the LORD; which the Israelites, as an evidence of preferring Baal before God, had impiously demolished, Chap. 18. 26, 30. Else altars may be here put for the worship of God. I, even I onely am left, &c.] Romans 11:3. Alone, for ought I know to the contrary: for none shewed themselves in Gods cause, when Elijah most zealously stood for it. See Chap. 18. vers. 4, 22.