He stretched himself upon the child three times - This action of Elijah is different from that of Elisha (marginal reference), and does not imply the use of any natural means for the restoration of suspended animation. It is nearly parallel to the “touch,” through which our Lord performed similar miracles Matthew 9:25; Luke 7:14.
Verse 1 Kings 17:21. _STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON THE CHILD THREE TIMES_] It is supposed that he did this in order to communicate some _natural_ _warmth_ to the body of the child, in order to dispose it t...
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._...
STRETCHED. measured. SOUL. life. Compare 1 Kings 17:23, "liveth". Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
_And he stretched himself_ As though he would give of his own vitality to restore the life of the boy. The LXX. reads ἐνεφύσησε τῷ παιδαρίῳ = -he breathed upon the child." This is an exposition of the...
AND HE STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON THE CHILD THREE TIMES— We are persuaded, that neither words nor gestures have any virtue; and yet we read, that the prophets of the Old Testament used extraordinary gesti...
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...
STRETCHED HIMSELF] As though to convey the warmth of life from his own frame to that of the dead child: cp. 2 Kings 4:34; Acts 20:10....
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...
HE STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON THE CHILD. — To suppose that this implies merely the use of some natural means of reviving the dead, is simply to explain the whole description away. The idea in this passage...
וַ יִּתְמֹדֵ֤ד עַל ־הַ יֶּ֨לֶד֙ שָׁלֹ֣שׁ פְּע
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...
Times, in honour of the blessed Trinity. (Menochius) --- He puts himself in this posture, as if the co-operate with God in warming the child; as Eliseus did, (4 Kings iv. 34,) as well as St. Paul, (Ac...
(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 HE STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON THE CHILD THREE TIMES,.... Or "measured himself" i on it, or put himself into a posture in some respects equal to the child; putting his mouth on its mouth, his eyes on i...
And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. Ver. 21. _And he stretched himself._] As...
_He stretched himself upon the child three times_ Not as if he thought this could contribute any warmth or life to the child; but partly to express, and withal to increase, his grief for the child's d...
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 ...
And he stretched himself upon the child three times, measuring his full length over him, AND CRIED UNTO THE LORD AND SAID, O LORD, MY GOD, I PRAY THEE, LET THIS CHILD'S SOUL COME INTO HIM AGAIN, takin...
THE DEAD BOY RESTORED TO LIFE...
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...
STRETCHED: _ Heb._ measured INTO HIM AGAIN: _ Heb._ into his inward parts...
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...
HE STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON THE CHILD; not as if he thought this could contribute any warmth or life to the child; but partly to express, and withal to increase, his grief for the child's death, and his...
1 Kings 17:21 stretched H4058 (H8709) child H3206 three H7969 times H6471 cried H7121 (H8799) LORD H3068 said...
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;...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 17:21 HE STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON THE CHILD THREE TIMES. The purpose of this action is not made clear. Biblical prophets often “act out” their messages (e.g.,...
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....
2 Kings 4:33; Acts 10:10; Acts 9:40; Hebrews 11:19...
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...
Come into him — By which it is evident, that the soul was gone out of his body, this was a great request; but Elijah was encouraged to make it; by his zeal for God's honour, and by the experience whic...