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Verse 1 Kings 18:19. _GATHER TO ME ALL ISRAEL_] The heads of tribes
and families; the rulers of the people.
_THE PROPHETS OF BAAL FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY - THE PROPHETS OF THE_
_GROVES FOUR HUNDRED_]...
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Carmel (Joshua 12:22 note) was chosen by the prophet as the scene of
the gathering to which he invited, or rather summoned, Ahab. Its thick
jungles of copse and numerous dwarf-oaks and olives, would f...
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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 ...
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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...
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CARMEL. Eighteen miles from Jezreel; sixteen miles from the sea. The
Kishon below, but now dry. At the foot. perennial spring, with. roofed
reservoir, eight feet deep. Carmel is still called "Mar-Elia...
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_all Israel_ i.e. A representative body of the whole people.
_unto mount Carmel_ There seems to have been in Elisha's time a
residence on Mt. Carmel, where he dwelt. For the Shunammite goes
thither t...
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II. THE GREAT CONTEST ON CARMEL 18:1-46
Events in Israel during the years of Elijah's self-imposed exile are
not narrated in any detail. No doubt at first Jezebel and the Baal
prophets assured the peo...
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_NOW THEREFORE SEND, AND GATHER TO ME ALL ISRAEL UNTO MOUNT CARMEL,
AND THE PROPHETS OF BAAL FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY, AND THE PROPHETS OF
THE GROVES FOUR HUNDRED, WHICH EAT AT JEZEBEL'S TABLE._
Gather...
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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....
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CARMEL] The only promontory on the coast of Palestine, rising at the
summit to nearly 1,800 ft. above the sea. THE PROPHETS OF THE GROVES]
better, 'the prophets of Asherah' (the. term here apparently...
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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...
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CARMEL. — The word signifies a “garden” or “park” (see
Isaiah 29:17; Isaiah 32:15, &c.) and, when used for the proper name of
the mountain, has commonly the article. Mount Carmel — rightly
called “the...
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וְ עַתָּ֗ה שְׁלַ֨ח קְבֹ֥ץ אֵלַ֛י אֶת
־כָּל
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ELIJAH AND AHAB
1 Kings 18:1
"Return, oh backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto Thee; for Thou art Jehovah our God. Truly in vain
is salvation hoped for from t...
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ELIJAH AT SAREPTA
1 Kings 17:7; 1 Kings 18:19.
"The rain is God's compassion."
-MOHAMMED
THE fierce drought continued, and "at the end of days" even the thin
trickling of the stream in the clefts o...
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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...
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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...
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Fifty, attached to Baal, and fed by the king; while the prophets of
the groves, or of Astarte, lived at the queen's expense. They imitated
the lives of the true prophets, to delude the people. --- Car...
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(19) Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount
Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the
prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
(20)...
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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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NOW THEREFORE SEND, AND GATHER TO ME ALL ISRAEL UNTO MOUNT CARMEL.....
No doubt but more discourse passed between Ahab and Elijah, though not
recorded, before he made this motion to him; it is very pr...
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Now therefore send, [and] gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel,
and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of
the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
Ver. 1...
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_Now therefore_ That this great controversy between thee and me may be
decided; that it may be determined who is the true God, and therefore
the proper object of the people's worship; that the true ca...
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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...
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ELIJAH REPROVES AHAB...
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Now, therefore, send and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel,
the mountain by the Mediterranean Sea, in the southern part of the
territory of Asher, AND THE PROPHETS OF BAAL, FOUR HUNDRED AND FI...
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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...
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17-20 One may guess how people stand affected to God, by observing how
they stand affected to his people and ministers. It has been the lot
of the best and most useful men, like Elijah, to be called a...
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NOW THEREFORE SEND, to wit, messengers, that this controversy between
thee and me may be decided, the true cause of these heavy judgments
discovered and removed, that so this plague may be removed. GA...
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“ Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel,
and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred
prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table.”
He then c...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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_When Ahab saw Elijah._
DELIVERANCE FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LION
I. The wonderful protection of the prophet;
II. The unjust accusation brought against him;
III. The bold language he uses; and,
IV....
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 15:13; 1 Kings 16:33; 1 Kings 18:42; 1 Kings 18:43; 1 Ki
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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...
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Send — Messengers, that this controversy may be decided, what is the
cause of these heavy judgments. All Israel — By their heads, or
representatives, that they may be witnesses of all our transactions...