Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Kings 17:22
And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived, he came back to life.
And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived, he came back to life.
Verse 1 Kings 17:22. _AND THE SOUL_] נפש _nephesh, of the child came into him_ _again_, על קרבו al kirbo, into the midst of him; and he revived, ויח _vaiyechi, and he became alive_. Did he not become...
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._...
_And the Lord heard_[R.V. HEARKENED UNTO] _the voice of Elijah_ This is the more usual rendering of the verb followed by a preposition as here. Instead of this verse the LXX. (_Vat_.) has -and it was...
DISCOURSE: 343 THE WIDOW’S SON RAISED BY ELIJAH 1 Kings 17:22. _And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. And Elijah took the child, and b...
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...
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...
וַ יִּשְׁמַ֥ע יְהוָ֖ה בְּ קֹ֣ול אֵלִיָּ֑הוּ ו
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...
(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 THE LORD HEARD THE VOICE OF ELIJAH,.... In prayer, and answered it: AND THE SOUL OF THE CHILD CAME INTO HIM AGAIN, AND HE REVIVED; this is the first instance of anyone being raised from the dead;...
And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. Ver. 22. _And the Lord heard._] The effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man availed much....
_The soul of the child came into him again_ The reader will easily observe, that this phraseology of the sacred historian, like that of the prophet in the former verse, (and they both spoke by inspira...
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...
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1 Kings 17:22 LORD H3068 heard H8085 (H8799) voice H6963 Elijah H452 soul H5315 child H3206 back H7725 ...
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;...
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 Samuel 2:6; 2 Kings 13:21; Acts 20:12; Deuteronomy 32:39; John 11:43
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...
Into him again — This plainly supposes the existence of the soul in a state of separation, and consequently its immortality: probably God might design by this miracle to give an evidence hereof, for t...