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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...
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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._...
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_came unto him_ The LXX. explains that it was -unto Elijah," which
could hardly be doubted from what follows....
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B. ELIJAH AT CHERITH 17:2-7
TRANSLATION
(2) And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, (3) Go from this
place and torn for your sake to the east, and hide yourself at the
river Cherith, which is...
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_AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO HIM, SAYING,_
The word of the Lord came unto him, saying,...
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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...
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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...
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וַ יְהִ֥י דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֥יו לֵ
אמֹֽר
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ELIJAH
1 Kings 17:1
"And Elias the prophet stood up as fire, and his word was burning as a
torch."
- Sir 48:1
"But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once,
and smite no more....
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SIN'S CLIMAX SUMMONS JEHOVAH'S PROPHET
1 Kings 16:29; 1 Kings 17:1
From the beginning of his reign Ahab set aside both the First and the
Second Commandment. His marriage with Jezebel, the young and b...
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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...
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(2) And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, (3) Get thee
hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith,
that is before Jordan. (4) And it shall be, that thou shalt drink...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO HIM,.... The word of prophecy, as the
Targum; this shows that by word, in the former verse, he means the
word of the Lord by him:
SAYING; as follows....
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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 ...
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And the word of the Lord came unto him, Elijah, SAYING,...
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THE FAMINE...
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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...
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1-7 God wonderfully suits men to the work he designs them for. The
times were fit for an Elijah; an Elijah was fit for them. The Spirit
of the Lord knows how to fit men for the occasions. Elijah let...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Kings 17:2 word H1697 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)
1 Kings 12:22; 1
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ELIJAH IS FED BY RAVENS AT THE BROOK CHERITH (1 KINGS 17:2).
Having made his public declaration Elijah was then advised by YHWH to
go to the east of Jordan, to one of the wadis that fed the Jordan,
wh...
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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...
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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...
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_The word of the Lord came unto him._
THE WORD OF THE LORD
We have in our theme a suggestion of the Divine guidance. The word of
the Lord as a guide comes to the man of prayer. I suppose Elijah was
g...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 17:1 Elijah and Ahab. Other prophets had
addressed earlier kings (see 1 Kings 14:7;...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 17:3. HIDE THYSELF BY THE BROOK CHERITH—He should
“hide,” in order to escape alike the king’s violence and
importunities; also to allow his words to vindicate...
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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...
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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....
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1 Chronicles 17:3; 1 Kings 12:22; Hosea 1:1; Hosea 1:2; Jeremiah 11:1;
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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...