Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Kings 18:27
Mocked them — Derided them and their gods, which had now proved themselves to be ridiculous and contemptible things.
Mocked them — Derided them and their gods, which had now proved themselves to be ridiculous and contemptible things.
Verse 1 Kings 18:27. _AT NOON - ELIJAH MOCKED THEM_] Had not Elijah been conscious of the Divine protection, he certainly would not have used such freedom of speech while encompassed by his enemies....
The object of Elijah’s irony was two-fold; (1) to stimulate the priests to greater exertions, and so to make their failure more complete, and (2) to suggest to the people that such failure would pro...
2. ELIJAH ON CARMEL: THE ANSWERED PRAYER CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The command to see Ahab (1 Kings 18:1)_ 2. Elijah's response (1 Kings 18:2) 3. Ahab and Obadiah (1 Kings 18:3) 4. Elijah and Obadiah ...
ELIJAH'S MEETING WITH AHAB AND HIS CONTEST WITH THE PRIESTS OF BAAL. The history of Ahab's reign must have been something like the following: On his marriage with Jezebel he must have allowed the wors...
CRY ALOUD, &C. Figure of speech _Eironeia._ App-6. PURSUING. Occurs only here....
_Elijah mocked them_ i.e. To make their folly more apparent to the people, he urged them on to greater exertions. _for he_is _a god_ As you deem him. Elijah attributed no power to Baal. He merely add...
ELIJAH MOCKED THEM, AND SAID, CRY ALOUD, &C.— Nothing can be imagined more poignant and sarcastic than these words of the prophet, in which he ridicules in the finest manner possible their wretched, f...
B. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST 18:21-40 The story of the contest on Carmel is one that has excited the imagination of believers through the centuries. The narrative is somewhat lengthy and may for...
_AND THEY TOOK THE BULLOCK WHICH WAS GIVEN THEM, AND THEY DRESSED IT, AND CALLED ON THE NAME OF BAAL FROM MORNING EVEN UNTIL NOON, SAYING, O BAAL, HEAR US. BUT THERE WAS NO VOICE, NOR ANY THAT ANSWERE...
TALKING] RV 'musing': i.e. lost in meditation. PURSUING] RV 'gone aside.'...
JEHOVAH OR BAAL? 1. In the third year] in Luke 4:2; James 5:17 the duration of the famine is given as 3 years and 6 months....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 18 GOD SENDS ELIJAH TO KING AHAB V1 After there had been no rain for three years, the *Lord spoke to Elijah. ‘Go and meet King Ahab. Then...
ELIJAH MOCKED THEM. — The mockery of Elijah — apparently even blunter and more scornful in the sense of the original — has been with over-ingenuity explained as applying to various supposed actions of...
וַ יְהִ֨י בַֽ † צָּהֳרַ֜יִם וַ יְהַתֵּ֧ל...
ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL 1 Kings 18:20 "O for a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy stand, Thy wild hair floating in the eastern breeze!" - KEBLE IT never occurred to Ahab to refuse the chal...
THE GOD THAT ANSWERETH NOT 1 Kings 18:16 “The God that answereth by fire, let Him be God.” We are thrilled as we read these words. Our altars stand unkindled, our sacrifices are unconsumed, our churc...
In this chapter we have perhaps one of the most familiar stories of the Old Testament. There are, however, certain points of interest especially to be noted. The first is Ahab's connection with Obadia...
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be...
_Talking to some of his prophets, (Calmet) or in deep contemplation. (Montanus) --- An inn. Septuagint, "giving oracles;" or, "he is pursuing." (Pagnin)_...
(25) And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. (26) And they took...
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 IT CAME TO PASS AT NOON,.... When they had been from the time of the morning sacrifice until now invoking their deity to no purpose: THAT ELIJAH MOCKED THEM; he jeered and bantered them: AND SAI...
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be...
_And it came to pass at noon_ When they had long tried all means in vain. _Elijah mocked them_ He derided them and their god, that he might awaken them out of their stupidity, and expose them to all t...
1 In the extremitie of famine Eliiah sent to Ahab, meeteth good Obadiah. 9 Obadiah bringeth Ahab to Eliiah. 17 Eliiah reprouing Ahab, by fire from heauen conuinceth Baals prophets. 41 Eliiah by pra...
And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god, that is, in their opinion; EITHER HE IS TALKING, engaged in deep meditation, OR HE IS PURSUING, having stepped...
ELIJAH SLAYS THE PROPHETS OF BAAL...
ELIJAH'S RETURN TO FACE AHAB (vs.1-20) The famine lasted three and a half years (James 5:17), the same length of time the Great Tribulation will last. But the rain would not be sent until Elijah gave...
ALOUD: _ Heb._ with a great voice HE IS TALKING: Or, he meditateth IS PURSUING: _ Heb._ hath a pursuit...
21-40 Many of the people wavered in their judgment, and varied in their practice. Elijah called upon them to determine whether Jehovah or Baal was the self-existent, supreme God, the Creator, Governo...
AT NOON; when they had long tried all means in vain. ELIJAH MOCKED THEM; derided them and their gods, which were indeed, and had now proved themselves to be, ridiculous and contemptible things. By thi...
1 Kings 18:27 noon H6672 Elijah H452 mocked H2048 (H8762) said H559 (H8799) Cry H7121 (H8798) aloud...
THE CONTEST ON MOUNT CARMEL: YHWH VERSUS BAAL (1 KINGS 18:21). In this vivid description of the contest on Mount Carmel Ahab is deliberately not mentioned. This was because it was not a contest betwee...
CONTENTS: Elijah goes to meet Ahab and gives challenge. Contests with the priests of Baal. CHARACTERS: God, Elijah, Jezebel, Obadiah, Baal, priests. CONCLUSION: The man of faith need not be afraid to...
1 Kings 18:1. _After many days._ About the end of the third year, leaving six months more for the crops to be sown and ripened, which harmonizes the new testament with the old. Luke 4:25; James 5:17....
_Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel._ THE PRIESTS OF BAAL Mendelssohn has wrought the harmonies and discords of this scene into a grand oratorio, and the painter or poe...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 18:1 In ch. 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah has lived privately, first in the Transjordanian wilderness and then in Zarephath. Now he reappears in public. The drought will end, but not bef
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 18:27 MUSING... RELIEVING HIMSELF... ON A JOURNEY... ASLEEP AND MUST BE AWAKENED. Elijah taunts the prophets of Baal with some disrespectful suggestions as to why he does not a...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 18:19. PROPHETS OF BAAL, &c.—Soothsayers and oracle príests. GROVES—Asherah. Baal and Astarte were the male and female divinities. Jezebel was the patroness o...
EXPOSITION ELIJAH'S RETURN AND THE ORDEAL OF MOUNT CARMEL.—The preceding chapter having been exclusively occupied with the fortunes of Elijah during his enforced absence of three and a half years from...
So our introduction to Elijah. Now it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the eaRuth...
1 Kings 22:15; 2 Chronicles 25:8; Amos 4:4; Amos 4:5; Ecclesiastes 11:9
ELIJAH AT MOUNT CARMEL 1 Kings 18:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are three things which we wish to consider: 1. JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE. The opening verse of chapter 18 says, "And it came to pass after ma...
Why was Elijah blessed for ridiculing the prophets of Baal when the Bible urges us to use kind words to our enemies? PROBLEM: The Bible says here that “Elijah mocked them” and suggested that their god...