And he cried unto the Lord and said, O Lord, my God, hast Thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn by slaying her son? It was a cry of deep distress over the fact that the tribulations of the famine were now increased by this new calamity, but also a prayer of faith that God surely would not permit death to hold the boy in these circumstances.
IV. THE PROPHET ELIJAH AND KING AHAB 1. Elijah's Prediction and Miracles CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Elijah's message to Ahab (1 Kings 17:1)_ 2. At the brook Cherith (1 Kings 17:2) 3. With the widow of Zarep...
ELIJAH IS FED BY RAVENS, AND RAISES THE WIDOW'S SON. Elijah appeared suddenly: we hear nothing of his birth or parentage. He simply announced to Ahab, in the name of Yahweh, before whom I stand (_cf._...
_O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow_ The LXX. omits -my God." In -also" the prophet refers to the other evil which was brought on Israel and Phœnicia too by the drought. The wid...
C. ELIJAH AT ZAREPHATH 17:8-24 As the water supply at Cherith began to fail, God instructed Elijah to leave the land of Israel and journey to the Phoenician village of Zarephath. Two great miraculous...
ELIJAH AND THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH The prophet Elijah, who occupies so large a space in the succeeding history, is, like his successor Elisha, conspicuous among the prophetic figures of the OT. as a wo...
HAST THOU.. EVIL] A like despondency is observable in the prophet's language in 1 Kings 19:4. Here he complains that evil dogs his steps wherever he turns and fastens even on those who befriend him....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 17 ELIJAH THE *PROPHET V1 Now Elijah from Tishbe in Gilead spoke to Ahab. ‘I promise this in the name of the *Lord because he is definit...
HAST THOU ALSO BROUGHT EVIL. — Elijah’s complaint is characteristic of the half-presumptuous impatience seen more fully in 1 Kings 19. He apparently implies that his own lot, as a hunted fugitive not...
וַ יִּקְרָ֥א אֶל ־יְהוָ֖ה וַ יֹּאמַ֑ר יְהוָ֣ה
NEW LIFE FOR THE DEAD 1 Kings 17:17 It must have been a severe trial to Elijah's faith, first to note the gradual diminishing of the brook; then the abject poverty of the woman to whom he was directe...
Here began a new order, the prophetic. Of course there had been prophets before, but with the coming of Elijah the office was elevated to national importance. From this point onwards, in the economy o...
And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also (k) brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? (k) He was afraid lest God's name be blasphemed and his mi...
_Her son. He speaks in the most earnest and familiar manner, shewing his confidence in God. (Salien)_...
(19) And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. (20) And he cried unto the LORD, and said,...
The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion, always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was insubordination in a direct manner against not only God's providence...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 AND 18. Elijah and Elisha, on the contrary (witnesses for God in the midst of a people that according to grace God still recognised as His own, but who had...
AND HE CRIED UNTO THE LORD,.... Or prayed unto him, as the Targum, with great vehemence and importunity: AND SAID, O LORD, MY GOD, HAST THOU ALSO BROUGHT EVIL UPON THE WIDOW, WITH WHOM I SOJOURN, BY...
And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? Ver. 20. _Hast thou also brought evil?_] Words of wonder, and...
_Give me thy son_ Into my arms. _He took him out of her bosom_ By which it appears he was but a little child. _And carried him up into a loft_ A private place, where he might more freely and fully pou...
1 Elijah hauing prophecied against Ahab, is sent to Cherith, where the rauens feed him. 8 He is sent to the widow of Zarephath. 17 Hee raiseth the widowes sonne. 24 The woman beleeueth him. 1 AND ...
ELIJAH PROPHESIES A DROUGHT (vs.1-7) Ahab was suddenly confronted by a prophet who had never been mentioned before, Elijah the Tishbite, the first prophet of God spoken of as arising from among the t...
17-24 Neither faith nor obedience shut out afflictions and death. The child being dead, the mother spake to the prophet, rather to give vent to her sorrow, than in hope of relief. When God removes ou...
A prayer full of powerful arguments. Thou art _the Lord_, that canst revive the child; and _my God_, and therefore wilt not, do not, deny me. She is a _widow_; add not affliction to the afflicted; dep...
1 Kings 17:20 cried H7121 (H8799) LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 tragedy H7489 ...
ELIJAH RAISES THE WIDOW'S SON TO LIFE (1 KINGS 17:17). In this final miracle God reveals His power of life and death. Sadly many people would have been dying in the area at the time because of the fam...
CONTENTS: Elijah's ministry and prediction of drought. Elijah fed. Raising of the widow's son. CHARACTERS: God, Elijah, Ahab, Sarephath woman, her son. CONCLUSION: God can wonderfully raise up serva...
1 Kings 17:1. _Elijah the Tishbite._ His parentage is not named, but the Jews call him a levite or a priest. He swore to Ahab in the name, not of Baal, but of Jehovah. As the Lord had promised covenan...
_And it came to pass after these things._ THE TEST OF THE HOME-LIFE Many a man might bear himself as a hero and saint in the solitudes of Cherith, or on the heights of Carmel, and yet wretchedly fail...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 17:1 Elijah and Ahab. Other prophets had addressed earlier kings (see 1 Kings 14:7;...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 17:18 The widow appears convinced of the truth of Elijah’s religion by seeing God’s power in vv. 1 Kings 17:8. When death comes, she knows it must be the Lord’s doing. She b
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 17:17. FELL SICK … NO BREATH LEFT IN HIM—This phrase does not absolutely imply _death_ (comp. Daniel 10:17; also 1 Kings 10:17). Josephus renders the incident...
EXPOSITION ELIJAH AND THE GREAT DROUGHT.—The picture which the historian has just drawn of the shameless idolatry and the gross degeneracy of the earlier part of Ahab's reign forms a fit prelude to an...
By Chuck Smith Let's turn to the First Kings, chapter seventeen. The seventeenth chapter of First Kings introduces us now to a very interesting character, Elijah the Tishbite, whatever Tishbite means....
1 Kings 18:36; 1 Kings 18:37; 1 Samuel 7:8; 1 Samuel 7:9; 2 Kings 19:15
JEHOVAH-JIREH _Selections from 1 Kings 17:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our God is the God who is enough. There is no good thing which He withholds from them who walk uprightly. Our God is able to make all...
He cried — A prayer full of powerful arguments. Thou art the Lord, that canst revive the child: and my God; and therefore wilt not, deny me. She is a widow, add not affliction to the afflicted; depriv...