Of the inhabitants of Gilead] RM according to LXX, of Tishbeh of Gilead.' Said unto Ahab] Nothing is related about the reason for the drought which the prophet predicted; but the cause was doubtless Ahab's idolatry (1 Kings 16:31 : cp. Leviticus 26:19; Deuteronomy 11:17). Josephus quotes a Tyrian historian who states that a drought occurred during the reign of Ethbaal (the king of Tyre and Zidon named in 1 Kings 16:31), which lasted a year.
CHAPTER XVII _Elijah's message to Ahab concerning the three years' drought_, 1. _He is commanded to go to the brook Cherith; where he is fed by_ _ravens_, 2-7. _He afterwards goes to a widow's hou...
The name Elijah means “Yahweh is my God.” It is expressive of the truth which his whole life preached. The two words rendered “Tishbite” and “inhabitant” are in the original (setting aside the vowel p...
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._...
ELIJAH. First mention. GOD (_El_) is JAH (or Jehovah). See App-4. TISHBITE. sojourner. Probably. priest. INHABITANTS. sojourners. BEFORE, &C. Probably. priest. See note above. DEW. night-mist. Comp...
1 Kings 17:1-7. Elijah the Tishbite. His prophecy of a drought and its fulfilment (Not in Chronicles) 1. _And Elijah the Tishbite_ Elijah comes suddenly upon the scene and throughout the history his a...
ELIJAH THE TISHBITE— _Elijah the Tishbite, of Thezbeh in Gilead._ Houbigant. _Elijah,_ who in the New Testament is commonly called _Elias,_ was of Thezbeh, a town on the other side of Jordan, in the t...
I. THE GREAT DROUGHT IN ISRAEL 17:1-24 The Ahab-Elijah clash was the epitome of the conflict which had been going on in Israel between king and prophet since the founding of the monarchy. The king had...
_AND ELIJAH THE TISHBITE, WHO WAS OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD, SAID UNTO AHAB, AS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL LIVETH, BEFORE WHOM I STAND, THERE SHALL NOT BE DEW NOR RAIN THESE YEARS, BUT ACCORDING TO MY...
17:1 Elijah (b-2) Meaning, 'Whose God ( _ El_ ) is Jehovah.'...
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...
ELIJAH THE TISHBITE OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD. — The most probable rendering of this disputed passage is that of the LXX., and virtually of Josephus, “Elijah the Tishbite of Tishbe in Gilead,” the...
וַ יֹּאמֶר֩ אֵלִיָּ֨הוּ הַ תִּשְׁבִּ֜י מִ תֹּ
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....
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...
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...
And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I (a) stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but (b) accor...
Elias means, "the strong God." Some Greeks derive the name of the prophet from Greek: elios, "the sun," improperly. His parentage is not known, nor even his tribe. Thesbe was situated in the tribe of...
CONTENTS We have in this chapter, for the first time, introduced to us, that eminent prophet and servant of God, Elijah. He comes to Israel, prophesying of a long season of drought. He is hidden of G...
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...
_A STERN MESSAGE_ ‘And Elijah … said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before Whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.’ 1 Kings 17:1 This mira...
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 ELIJAH THE TISHBITE, [WHO] WAS OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD,.... Which belonged partly to the Reubenites and Gadites, and partly to the half-tribe of Manasseh on the other side Jordan, where this...
And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to...
_And Elijah the Tishbite_, &c. So bad was the character, both of the Israelites and their princes, as represented in the foregoing chapter, that one would have expected God should have cast off a peop...
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 Elijah ("My God is Jehovah") THE TISHBITE, a native, so far as can be determined, of Galilee, but having been removed to Gilead, where he lived as a stranger, WHO WAS OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD,...
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...
ELIJAH: _ Heb._ Elijahu. Luke 4:25. he is called Elias...
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...
1 KINGS CHAPTER 17 Elijah foretelleth, Ahab that there shall be a great drought; is sent to Cherith, where the ravens feed him, 1 KINGS 17:1. He is sent to Zarephath to a widow, who feedeth him with m...
1 Kings 17:1 Elijah H452 Tishbite H8664 inhabitants H8453 Gilead H1568 said H559 (H8799) Ahab H256 LORD H3068 God...
ELIJAH Hebrew, "Elijahu," (Luke 1:17); (Luke 4:25) called Elias. AHAB It was a small thing for a man whose life was passed in Jehovah's presence to stand before Ahab....
1 Kings 17:1 I. There is no finer witness to the marvellous spirit and quenchless "power" of the prophet Elijah than the fact that the impression he made upon his contemporaries retained its clearness...
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...
_As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand._ THE SOURCE OF ELIJAH’S STRENGTH This chapter begins with the conjunction “And”: it is, therefore, an addition to what has gone before; and it...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 17:1 Elijah and Ahab. Other prophets had addressed earlier kings (see 1 Kings 14:7;...
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELIJAH THE TISHBITE CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 17:1. ELIJAH THE TISHBITE—This is the first mention of him in Scripture; an abrupt introduction, which seems to im...
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....
1 Kings 22:14; 2 Kings 3:14; 2 Kings 5:16; Acts 27:23; Deuteronomy 10
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...
Elijah — The most eminent of the prophets, who is here brought in, like Melchisedek, without any mention of his father, or mother, or beginning of his days; like a man dropt out of the clouds, and rai...