Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Kings 18:38
Consumed — Solomon's altar was consecrated by fire from heaven; but this was destroyed, because no more to be used.
Consumed — Solomon's altar was consecrated by fire from heaven; but this was destroyed, because no more to be used.
Verse 1 Kings 18:36. _THEN THE FIRE OF THE LORD FELL_] It did not _burst out_ from the altar; this might still, notwithstanding the water, have afforded some ground for suspicion that fire had been co...
THE FIRE OF THE LORD FELL - This cannot have been a flash of lightning. It was altogether, in its nature as well as in its opportuneness, miraculous. Compare the marginal references for the conduct of...
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...
THEN THE FIRE OF THE LORD FELL. Aram, and Septuagint read "Then fire from Jehovah fell". See note on Genesis 4:4. "Fire of Jehovah" occurs only here and Numbers 11:1; Numbers 11:3. BURNT SACRIFICE. S...
_Then the fire of the Lord fell_ In the LXX. we have -and there fell fire from the Lord out of heaven." _burnt sacrifice_ R.V. BURNT-OFFERING as in 1 Kings 18:33. To mark the might of Him who sent th...
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 ELIJAH TOOK TWELVE STONES, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE TRIBES OF THE SONS OF JACOB, UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME, SAYING, ISRAEL SHALL BE THY NAME:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
וַ תִּפֹּ֣ל אֵשׁ ־יְהוָ֗ה וַ תֹּ֤אכַל אֶת
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 BY FIRE 1 Kings 18:30 Too many halt, or limp, between two opinions. The altar of consecration to Christ has been thrown down, 1 Kings 18:30. The worship of Baal, which stands f...
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...
_Trench, as if it had been of an inflammable nature. Julian himself was forced to acknowledge this miracle. "This, says he, once happened under Moses, and, a long while after, again under Elias, the T...
(38) Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. Observe the graciousness of God, and...
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...
THEN THE FIRE OF THE LORD FELL,.... An extraordinary fire from God out of heaven, as the effects of it show: AND CONSUMED THE BURNT SACRIFICE; as it had done in former instances, Leviticus 9:24, and...
Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that [was] in the trench. Ver. 38. _Then the fire of the Lord fel...
_The fire of the Lord fell_ And not only, as at other times, (see the margin,) consumed the sacrifice and the wood, in token of God's acceptance of the offering, but _licked up all the water that was...
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...
Then the fire of the Lord fell, as when the Tabernacle was dedicated, Leviticus 9:24, AND CONSUMED THE BURNT SACRIFICE, AND THE WOOD, AND THE STONES, AND THE DUST, that in the spaces between the stone...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
1 Kings 18:38 fire H784 LORD H3068 fell H5307 (H8799) consumed H398 (H8799) sacrifice H5930 wood H6086 stones...
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 18:38 FIRE OF THE LORD. This cannot be the result of any natural phenomenon, since even lightning would not consume the stones. As ALL THE PEOPLE realize, thi
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 Chronicles 21:26; 1 Kings 18:24; 2 Chronicles 7:1; 2 Kings 1:12;...
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...