Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 Kings 17:14
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, in whom I perceive thou trustest. The barrel of meal, i.e. the meal of the barrel; an hypallage or metonymy. So the cruse of oil, for the oil of the cruse.
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, in whom I perceive thou trustest. The barrel of meal, i.e. the meal of the barrel; an hypallage or metonymy. So the cruse of oil, for the oil of the cruse.
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._...
BARREL OF MEAL. Figure of speech _Hypallage_ (App-6). meal in the barrel....
_God of Israel_ Omitted by the LXX., as are also, in the next verse, the words -according to the saying of Elijah....
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...
_FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THE BARREL OF MEAL SHALL NOT WASTE, NEITHER SHALL THE CRUSE OF OIL FAIL, UNTIL THE DAY THAT THE LORD SENDETH RAIN UPON THE EARTH._ The barrel of meal shall not...
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...
כִּ֣י כֹה֩ אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל...
THE JAR OF MEAL THAT WASTED NOT 1 Kings 17:8 Even at Cherith we cannot be exempt from trial, and it is hard to sit beside a gradually dwindling brook. But God always provides. None of them that trust...
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...
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, (g) The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. (g) God receives no bene...
_Until, nor for some time afterwards; otherwise they would still have been in danger of perishing, as the corn could not grow immediately. (Salien, the year before Christ 929.)_...
(10) So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little...
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...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,.... Whom the prophet perceived she had knowledge of, and faith in: THE BARREL OF MEAL SHALL NOT WASTE, NEITHER SHALL THE CRUSE OF OIL FAIL; that is, the meal in...
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. Ver. 14. _The barrel of meal...
_Make me thereof a little cake first_ This he requires as a trial of her faith, charity, and obedience, which he knew God would graciously and plentifully reward; and so this would be a great example...
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 ...
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, not be consumed, NEITHER SHALL THE CRUSE OF OIL FAIL, UNTIL THE DAY THAT THE LORD SENDETH RAIN UPON THE EARTH, whose fruitful...
ELIJAH IN ZAREPHATH...
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...
SENDETH: _ Heb._ giveth...
8-16 Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, and some, it is likely, would have bidden him welcome to their houses; yet he is sent to honour and bless with his presence a city of Sidon, a Ge...
1 Kings 17:14 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 Israel H3478 bin H3537 flour H7058 up H3615 ...
YHWH MAKES PROVISION FOR ELIJAH WITH A WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH (1 KINGS 17:8). The water in the Wadi Cherith having almost dried up, God now directed Elijah to go to Zarephath, where He would arrange for a...
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...
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 17:9. ZAREPHATH, WHICH BELONGETH TO ZIDON—_Sarepta_, situate between Tyre and Sidon, in the native land of Jezebel. Yet this “widow” knew JEHOVAH (1 Kings 17:...
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 17:4; 2 Kings 3:16; 2 Kings 4:2; 2 Kings 4:42; 2 Kings 7:1;...
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...
The barrel, &c. — The meal of the barrel So the cruse of oil for the oil of the cruse....