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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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Meeting of Obadiah and Elijah (Not in Chronicles)
7. _and he knew him_ The prophet's garb would probably make him easy
to be recognized, and he must have been seen more than once in
Samaria, and by A...
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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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_AND AS OBADIAH WAS IN THE WAY, BEHOLD, ELIJAH MET HIM: AND HE KNEW
HIM, AND FELL ON HIS FACE, AND SAID, ART THOU THAT MY LORD ELIJAH?_
As Obadiah was in the way ... Elijah met him. Deeming it imprud...
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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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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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ART THOU THAT... — The sense is either (as the LXX. has it) “Is it
thy very self, my lord Elijah?” or (perhaps more suitably to the
context), “Thou here, my lord Elijah,” when all seek thy life? The
p...
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וַ יְהִ֤י עֹבַדְיָ֨הוּ֙ בַּ †
דֶּ֔רֶךְ וְ...
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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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BEHOLD, ELIJAH!
1 Kings 18:1
“The word of the Lord came” to Elijah on four successive
occasions- 1 Kings 17:2; 1 Kings 17:8; 1 Kings 18:1
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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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And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah (c) met him: and he knew
him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah?
(c) God often pities the wicked for the sake of the godly,...
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_Face, to shew him a religious veneration, due to the servant of God.
(Worthington)_...
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(2) And Elijah went to shew himself unto Habakkuk. And there was a
sore famine in Samaria. (3) And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the
governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: (4) F...
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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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And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew
him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah?
Ver. 7. _And he knew him._] They were of old acquaintance, doub...
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_He knew him, and fell on his face_ Showing his great respect and love
to him, by this profound reverence. _Art thou that my lord Elijah?_ As
Obadiah had showed the tenderness of a father to the sons...
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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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And as Obadiah was in the way, engaged in this task of finding water
for the royal stables, BEHOLD, ELIJAH MET HIM; and he knew him, the
prophet being recognizable anywhere by the garments which he wo...
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ELIJAH REPROVES AHAB...
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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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1-16 The severest judgments, of themselves, will not humble or change
the hearts of sinners; nothing, except the blood of Jesus Christ, can
atone for the guilt of sin; nothing, except the sanctifying...
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By this profound reverence showing his great respect and love to him....
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1 Kings 18:7 Obadiah H5662 way H1870 Elijah H452 met H7125 (H8800)
recognized H5234 (H8686) fell H5307 ...
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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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_Go, show thyself unto Ahab._
AHAB, OBADIAH, AND ELIJAH;-
What are the general lessons as affecting Ahab, Obadiah, and Elijah?
1. It is possible for a man to be very bad in one direction and very
t...
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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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ELIJAH’S CONTEST WITH AHAB AND BAAL
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 18:1. _After_ MANY DAYS … IN THE THIRD YEAR—in Luke 4:25,
James 5:17, the drought is said to have lastes for the space of...
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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 11:29; 1 Samuel 20:41; 2 Kings 1:6; 2 Samuel 19:18; Gen
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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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And fell — By this profound reverence, shewing his great respect and
love to him....